The so-called "few responses" are actually rejections!

Everyone understands this truth.

As for Li Xiangen, who is the secretary of the Li Fan Academy, he naturally knows better, but in the past three years, everyone has pretended to be dumb there.

It seems that no one thinks that this establishment is a big deal.

In fact, Li Xiangen, who became the secretary of the Lifan Yuan three years ago, originally thought that with a holy decree from the Heavenly Empire, he could make these small countries obediently agree to let the states set up the Chengyuan and send the Cheng. But who knew that it had been three years since the decree was issued, except for Gaoping and several sultanates such as Johor, Perak, and Aceh on the Nanyang Peninsula, such as Siam and Chenla, they did not give a positive response. Of course, except for North Korea, North Korea is extremely obedient to Daming, and of course there is no resistance to the establishment of the Zhicheng Pavilion.

But for Li Xiangen, this is a heart disease, after all, he is the secretary of the Li Fan Academy. He had to prove his talents, especially ...... He's got a stain on him!

When he was in his hometown in Sichuan, he participated in the township examination in the first year of the first year and won the lift. He also served as a staff member of the Qing army, and even went to the capital to prepare to participate in the Xin Chou examination, if it were not for the fact that many officials abandoned India and fled south at that time, I am afraid that he would really participate in the Xin Chou examination. Later, although he went to Qinghe, and then achieved the Shangshu of the Lifan Academy step by step, there were always some stains on his body. Especially the experience of entering the shogunate of the governor of Sichuan, it makes him feel ashamed every time he thinks about it.

Because of this, after being named the official of the Rifan Yuan by His Majesty, he has been trying to prove his ability, but it is not easy to perform in a place like the Rifan Yuan. That is, Gao Ping's "dedication to the country" finally made him raise his eyebrows, but now when he mentions the establishment of the Zhicheng Pavilion, his face naturally becomes a little ugly.

"Your Majesty, it may also be Siam, Zhenla and other local kings, I don't know what the intention of setting up the Zhicheng Pavilion is, so I don't dare to agree easily."

Gu Yanwu explained in a timely manner.

Why was Zhicheng Pavilion established?

In fact, the Zhicheng Pavilion, which is equivalent to a consulate, is to protect the interests of expatriates and businessmen in the Ming Kingdom. After all, many expatriates and businessmen of the Ming Dynasty now live and do business in Nanyang. Zhu Mingzhong naturally ordered the Lifan Yuan to set up a Zhicheng Pavilion to protect the expatriate.

Of course, it is also to understand the place of residence and prepare for future annexation. But those earth kings didn't buy Daming's account at all.

However, Zhu Mingzhong himself seemed very calm about this, as if such a situation had long been expected by him, and the establishment of the Cheng Pavilion was just a temptation. It was to test the reaction of those earth kings.

I saw him sneer, and then ordered.

"Don't worry about those earth kings for the time being, everything will go according to plan. I want to teach a lesson, and no one can stop it! Moreover, this is just the right time to kill chickens and show monkeys! ”

Kill the chicken and show it to the monkey!

Annan is that chicken!

As for the monkeys, they are naturally Siam, Chenla, and the princely states of Aceh, Brunei, Johor, Perak, Banten, Yogyakarta, Kedah, Selangor, Sulu and Terengganu. Of course, for these soil countries, Zhu Mingzhong will not raise troops to fight on a large scale. After all, compared to the mature political system of Vietnam, which was part of China for hundreds of years, those princely states are not so much states. It's more like a princely chieftain, but it's just a royal city. These princely states are not worthy of the Ming Dynasty's crusade, but are suitable for military training - let the vassal kings train there, after all, it is impossible for the imperial court to fight the world for them.

"Li Qing, the Li Fan Yuan wants to seize this opportunity to tell those chieftains that they will accept us to set up the Zhicheng Pavilion, and after the establishment of the Zhicheng Pavilion, what is our goal? Nature is to protect overseas Chinese businessmen! ”

Zhu Mingzhong looked at Li Xiangen and once again emphasized the purpose of setting up the Zhicheng Pavilion.

Although nominally, the various states of Nanyang were vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, this relationship between the suzerains and the vassal states was only based on the tributary system. The suzerainty has no right to interfere in the internal affairs of the vassal state, nor does it have the right to station troops in the vassal state. Of course, it won't. And this kind of tributary relationship was already in existence as early as the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Later, the Qing captives entered the prison, which made the virtual suzerainty almost non-existent.

At the same time, as early as more than 200 years ago, the small Nanyang Peninsula had already fallen into a melee. In the past two hundred years, the great powers of the peninsula have attacked each other. The war between Burma and Siam lasted for a hundred years, and it was not until Burma was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty that Siam was considered to have stopped, and in Vietnam, the Zheng clan in Annam in the north and the Nguyen clan in Quang Nam competed with each other for "the world" for a hundred years.

However, although the soil kingdom of Nanyang has been busy with infighting, in the past few years, they have still felt the changes, and they have felt the changes in the suzerain. They found that their harbor was full of ships from the Celestial Empire, and their bazaar was full of goods from the Celestial Empire. In addition, the number of Ming people on the street is also increasing day by day.

It is precisely for this reason that in order to protect the interests of the Ming merchants, the Zhicheng Pavilion will be established. Although in fact, the Ming merchants who do business in Nanyang today are completely different from the Ming merchants of the past, and the traders who go to Nanyang to do business now often rely on the Western Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce would negotiate directly with the Tuwang and set up cannon-equipped "merchant houses" and private guards in important ports, just like Western merchants. In the face of those firearms and cannons, the local earth kings naturally did not dare to bully the Ming merchants as wantonly as before.

But that's just a businessman's behavior, and it needs protection at the national level! Of course, the purpose of the museum is not only to protect, but also to have another more important purpose.

"Overseas colonization requires a process, from the initial opening of the port to trade, and then the next step is to lease land from them......"

Walking in front of the big map and putting this world map in Wenzhao Pavilion is Zhu Mingzhong's unique way of reminding people that China is not a "central country" and is not the only civilization in the world.

"We can lease one piece of land after another from them on the coastline of the South Seas, and then, build a city there, divide the clan, the first thing we need is a foothold, and after having that foothold, we can turn it into Zhuxia little by little, of course, before that, what we need to do is to declare to those earth kings the suzerainty of our Ming Dynasty, what we want is not the "Heavenly Empire" in our mouths, the verbal suzerain, we have to rely on the title of the suzerain, we continue to ask them for various privileges, and these privileges, It is the necessity for us to appease the barbarians. It's also a task that Zhicheng needs to complete! ”

Zhu Mingzhong, who was familiar with the Westerners' colonial methods, had no intention of sending a large army to attack those lands in Nanyang, and according to his plan, he used the least costly way - diplomatically forcing those countries to cede some of their land.

Of course, in the eyes of those earth kings, such a request is extremely unreasonable. But their strength makes them not have the courage to say "no" to Daming. And Annan is a warning, a warning to everyone about what will happen if they refuse!

It is nothing more than an immediate death, a sooner or later death. Zhu Mingzhong believes that they will choose to die late without exception. Moreover, many of the Tu kings of the South Seas have no concept of land at all, and they don't mind leasing or even ceding land to the Ming Dynasty, just like Zhenla ceded the Mekong Delta to the Ming Dynasty, and they didn't even blackmail, just because Zhenla borrowed the Ming Dynasty to resist the invasion of Siam, and then the Mekong Delta is now just a swamp, not the granary of Vietnam in later generations, in fact, the reason why the Mekong Delta became a granary is also the result of the work of the Ming people - after Zheng Keshuang surrendered, The Ming army, led by Chen Shangchuan and others, who were unwilling to surrender to the enemy, reclaimed that land and made it the granary of Vietnam.

Later, a group of monarchs and ministers had some discussions on the matter of sending troops to Annan, and everyone, including Zhang Huangyan, did not think that there would be any resistance to sending troops to Annan, and even occasionally they would set their eyes on Li Dingguo.

Borrow a knife to kill.

Li Dingguo, who is the secretary of the Ministry of War, did not show the slightest abnormality, but there was some melancholy between his eyebrows, and he rarely made any remarks, but he has been silent, in this regard, Zhu Mingzhong naturally looked at it, and after the cabinet initially reached the decision to send troops to Annan, when all the ministers withdrew, he left Li Dingguo.

"King Jin,"

Walking in front of Li Dingguo, looking at this King of Jin who insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty and was unswerving, thinking about what happened to him in history, Zhu Mingzhong said with a serious expression in his heart.

"You must be worried that I want to borrow a knife to kill someone!"

"Don't dare!"

Li Dingguo hurriedly saluted and said, he can think about it, but he must not say it.

"There's nothing you don't dare, you have such concerns, I can understand it, but, King Jin, the reason why I will use the soldiers and horses of the Jin clan to use Annan is naturally my consideration, well......"

After a moment of silence, Zhu Mingzhong walked to the front of the pavilion door, looked at the sky outside the door, and said in a deep voice.

"The King of Jin and the generals, although they were born in the West, but they are also my Ming heroes, and I can also be said to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but it is inevitable that some people in the court will have a lot of complaints about the King of Jin and the princes, and even hold a grudge.

His Majesty's words made Li Dingguo's heart tighten, and he hurriedly opened his mouth to justify.

"Your Majesty......"

Without waiting for him to speak, Zhu Mingzhong interrupted him and said.

"King Jin, I still remember when you first entered the central capital, I went out of the city for ten miles to greet you, and I promised you that day that I would properly settle the Jin Domain, and never let you have the slightest concern, today, the reason why I am like this is not because the soldiers of the Jin Domain are familiar with Nanyang, but more importantly, I intend to place them there as the guards of the clan and the palace, I don't know what the King of Jin thinks?"