Chapter Eighty-Eight: Quartet Envoy II

Zhang Xuan said: "In my opinion, this is what makes the Quartet light on China. At the beginning, as a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, Manchu Jia was destroyed by the Westerners and could not be saved. It's just a majestic sweep. ”

"I don't want to be famous, I only care about reality. Therefore, the way of diplomacy of this DPRK should be to unite the name with the real. ”

When Wen An heard this, he knew that Zhang Xuan already had a plan in his heart. I don't know how many times, as long as Zhang Xuan says his thoughts, he has no part for others to speak.

However, Wen An's responsibility, the part of diplomatic authority, was assigned to the Ministry of Rites by Zhang Xuan. Or it was originally divided equally between the Ministry of Rites and other departments, and under Zhang Xuan's streamlining, the Ministry of Rites was temporarily responsible.

After all, there aren't enough people these days.

"Your Majesty means ----," Wen Anzhi asked.

Zhang Xuan said: "Anyone who comes from afar will be treated as an enemy. ”

"Your Majesty is so lenient, it seems that some of them are arrogant." Wen An thought in his heart and tried to persuade Zhang Xuan. After all, since ancient times, Confucianism has been fond of the trick of returning to distant people.

Zhang Xuan said: "However, it is only the policy of the Song Dynasty, and now there is a big problem, that is, the Dutch. May I ask Lord Wen, where are the Dutch placed in the tributary arrangement? ”

Wen An was a little speechless for a while.

Although the two Song Dynasty were weak Song Dynasty, it seems that because of the presence of the Liao State, there were few vassals in their relations with foreign countries, and several countries maintained this enemy, Liao, Western Xia, Japan, and so on.

Maybe it's because of the national strength, but let Zhang Xuan use it.

A lot of things in the pile of old papers are just their own words, and Wen Anzhi has something to say about this. But as soon as the Dutchman's problem came out, Wen An also found it difficult to deal with for a while.

In the tributary relationship dominated by the Ming court, there was no place for the Dutch, Spaniards, and Portuguese at all, in order to be able to trade. They don't mind bowing their heads to the imperial court, but in terms of actual interests, they will definitely not give an inch. Living up to its name like this is a self-deceptive attitude, and Zhang Xuan will never do it.

"What should Annan do over there?" Wen Anzhi said: "The coal mine in the hands of the Mo family is the most important thing, so should it be given to the Mo family." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Naturally not, I am not Song Xianggong. ”

It's just a joke, how could Zhang Xuan spit out the meat he ate in his mouth, even if he wanted to spit it out, Mo didn't dare to ask for it.

"I just don't want to be famous, but as long as the country is called a minister, I will send envoys to its capital to maintain contact with the imperial court, and once the imperial court wants to use it, all countries must send troops."

Wen An heard it and said, "Your Majesty uses the system of the vassal states of the Han Dynasty. ”

The princes and kings of the Han Dynasty were still real

power, but in order to weaken the rights of the princes and kings, the central government of the Han Dynasty brought the right to appoint the prime minister of the kingdom to the imperial court.

It is similar to Zhang Xuan's actions today. Thinking about the envoys sent by Zhang Xuan, it is definitely not just the envoys.

The specific amount of rights depends on the strength and influence of Great Xia.

Zhang Xuan said: "Exactly. ”

"It's just that in this way, there are not many countries of people who are willing to be vassals." Wen Anzhi said. The struggle for power has always been extremely cruel, and Shui is unwilling to invite an emperor for himself.

I'm afraid that after Zhang Xuan's policy is promulgated, there will not be too many countries willing to be vassals of Great Xia. Not even a few.

Zhang Xuan said: "It doesn't matter. There was no hope for them. The three Annan families are determined to be included in the sphere of influence of the imperial court, and the rest are left to themselves. However, even if there was no tribute, trade was allowed to come and go freely. ”

What is in the future is naturally in the future.

Zhang Xuan only needs to stabilize Annan.

After Zhang Xuan determined this policy, Wen Anzhi could only implement it, and he thought that the countries that were willing to pay tribute were only three Annan. The Ministry of Rites has prepared to abolish the Li clan in the name of the Li clan against the Celestial Empire, and divide Annan into two countries, one Tusi, and the Mo clan is directly subordinate to the Guangxi Tusi.

It will take some time for this plan to be implemented.

The Three Kingdoms of Annam were held back by the power of Great Xia, and they had to bow down and profess themselves, not daring to oppose them openly. It's hard to say about some twists and turns in the dark.

In addition to the self on Annam's side, Ryukyu is also a minister, and even the Ryukyu Shang family does not want to be just a minister, but wants to sacrifice land. Not on an overseas island, but as a Chinese scholar.

However, it is not to blame Shang, Ryukyu is simply a land of projectiles, and I am afraid that even a large number of pirates will not be able to resist it, not to mention the melee in Japan, which has actually affected Ryukyu, at least many Japanese have the intention of occupying Ryukyu.

As for whether it was a real Japanese or a private action of the daimyo of southwest Japan, Shang knew it in his heart, and naturally felt that Ryukyu Island was a place of danger, and he thought that most of the people on Ryukyu Island were the thirty-six surnames of Fujian in the past during the Hongwu period. Shang even wanted to change this Ryukyu foundation for an official hat.

It's good for everyone.

It's just that this is not good, although Wen Anzhi is more supportive of the Northern Expedition, after all, it is to unify the world. However, he was a little worried about Zhang Xuan's posture of repeatedly mobilizing troops overseas. Worried that Zhang Xuan was so happy.

Second, the impact is not good, although Ryukyu is small, not as good as a county in the Central Plains, but it is still a country, here Ryukyu says to donate land, but in the eyes of outsiders, it may not think so.

So the timing is not right. You can only hold it down first.

Wen Anzhi still understands that Ryukyu has such thoughts, but when he saw North Korea, he was surprised, he never thought that North Korea was willing to be a minister and let the imperial court send envoys.

Even the meaning of the envoy's words seemed to be that he wanted to invite troops from the Xia Dynasty.

Wen Anzhi was taken aback.

As one of the core layers of Great Xia, even if he is not in charge of the military, Zhang Xuan will not hide some military plans from Wen Anzhi, such as the North Korean plan and the western attack plan.

These two plans are on paper, one is that the situation on the North Korean side is unclear, but Jiangnan has some people who know North Korea, and they are all sailors who run the sea. But these people came into contact with the North Korean people at the bottom. Nothing to do with the upper echelons of North Korea.

Zhang Xuan searched all over the south of the Yangtze River, but found a person in Jiangxi, that is Jiang Riguang, who had been an envoy to North Korea as an envoy of the Ming Dynasty, and was still very familiar with North Korean Shilin.

It's just that Zhang Xuan repeatedly sent people to invite him, but Jiang Riguang avoided it, and he looked like he didn't eat Xia Su. Even Zhang Xuan couldn't help it for a while.

Therefore, this matter has to be put on hold.

Wen Anzhi saw that there was something wrong with the situation on the side of the North Korean envoy, and felt that the mission of the North Korean envoy was probably not simple, so he immediately reported it to Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan immediately made a decision and immediately pushed away the matter at hand, causing Zhao Chengli to meet him more and more. Zhao Chengli had the opportunity to meet Zhang Xuan.

Zhao Chengli immediately sorted out his clothes. After bathing and changing clothes, on the avenue of the Forbidden City, Zhao Chengli looked at the shabby color leaking from all corners of the Forbidden City, and his heart was extraordinary and did not look down on Zhang Xuan, but looked up a lot.

The Nanjing Forbidden City has long been out of shape, and Luo Yulong has renovated the front hall, and even because of the silver, it is just a bright appearance.

A lot of dilapidated places can't be covered at all.

In Zhao Chengli's view, it is a plus. In the past few days in Nanjing, he has not been idle, but has explored the bottom of Zhang Xuan in the city of Nanjing. Among all kinds of folk rumors, Zhang Xuan became a god-of-war level figure for a while.

Of course, a considerable number of people in Nanjing City are family members of the Great Xia army, so they naturally say that Zhang Xuan is good, not that Zhang Xuan is bad.

Zhao Chengli may not believe all of them, but he believes in one thing, that is, Zhang Xuan has a set of things in battle, but he can win the world immediately, but he can't rule the world immediately.

can only fight, not Zhao Chengli's heart of the master, but now seeing Zhang Xuan is so simple, and Beijing's pomp and circumstance can not be compared at all, in the Forbidden City of Beijing, the palace burned by Li Zicheng is being repaired, but he knows that the three major halls were rebuilt in the year of the Apocalypse, costing seven or eight hundred thousand taels of silver.

This time there will only be more, not less.

Thrift is the head of all virtues in the world, seeing this, Zhao Chengli added a point to Zhang Xuan in his heart, in fact, what he wanted to solve in his heart was not the crisis of North Korea, but the crisis of the Zhao family, so in the future, the battle of the Northern Expedition of North Korea can only be won. Otherwise, the Zhao family will not have a good end.

How to win, relying on those North Korean soldiers, it is absolutely impossible.