In the golden autumn of September, it is another harvest season, at this time, the Ming Dynasty's foreign conquest has been fruitful, but the construction of various places is in the ascendant.

The expansion of the capital has lasted more than two months, and the construction of city walls, roads, water supply and drainage and other infrastructure in the north and south urban areas has already been completed; The land in Nancheng District has also been auctioned, and various shops, workshops and even factories are under construction; The construction of Beicheng District is nearing completion, and the 100,000 soldiers of the construction corps have already completed the construction of the main building, and the rest is the interior decoration and meticulous carving.

The Eurasian Canal has also started construction for nearly ten years, and with the close cooperation of the Ottoman Empire, Spain and Portugal, it is progressing very smoothly.

In addition, the construction of railways and highways in 15 provinces in South Asia is also in full swing, and the heads and minds of the provinces also want to complete the project as soon as possible before the end of the year, not because they want to go home for the New Year, but because they want to add points to themselves in the next year's Beijing inspection plan, and maybe they can use this to get promoted.

There is also the Liaodong Army under the leadership of Sun Chengzong, while building the railway and advancing, it seems that there is no resistance in the territory of the former Nuer Gandusi, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before the entire territory of northern Xinjiang is recovered.

The situation everywhere is very good, and the pregnancy of Queen Qin Mingyue is becoming more and more obvious, Zhu Cijiong's mood can be described as extremely happy.

At this time, the Jiangnan Reserve Corps stationed in the northeast of South Asia and the Yunnan Reserve stationed in the northwest of South Asia successively sent reports that the two countries of Nibazhu and Pazhu in the mountainous areas of northern South Asia requested to send envoys to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute!

These two small countries Zhu Cijiong knew it, because they had a record of paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty before, but because of the long distance, they paid tribute relatively rarely.

Immediately afterwards, another report came from the Nanyang Governor's Mansion in Xingcheng Port, and Bo Ni and Sulu also sent envoys to find the Nanyang Governor's Mansion and ask to go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute.

It turned out that none of them were destroyed by the Dutch, but they just took refuge on a remote island.

To be honest, Zhu Cijiong has never been very interested in such a meaningless thing as tribute, because the tributes are only nominally ministers, in fact, they have no real affiliation with the Ming Dynasty, and there are not many tributary countries that really regard the Ming Dynasty as the suzerain, most of them are for military protection and economic support from the Ming Dynasty.

He still thinks that only countries that accept the "Ming Vassal State Command System" and accept the Ming Dynasty's military control and economic control can be regarded as real vassal states.

Zhu Cijiong really didn't have any ideas about the small countries of Nibathorn, Pazhu, Boni and Sulu, that is to say, it didn't matter if they were willing to be vassals of the Ming Dynasty, because they didn't pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty at all.

Of course, now that people take the initiative to ask for tribute, they can't ignore it, after all, this is also a kind of respect for the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty should show the demeanor of the Heavenly Empire and receive them well.

So how exactly is it received? This Zhu Cijiong really didn't know, so he invited the two chief officials of the Yamen who are now in charge of foreign relations in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Huang Daozhou, the priest of the Guozi, to discuss with them the issue of receiving tributary envoys.

When Huang Daozhou heard that the emperor was summoned, he jumped over after a while, because every time the emperor looked for him, there were good things that he was interested in, and he was naturally very excited.

Xu Guangqi came a little slowly, after all, he was already old, it would be good to be able to walk without crutches, and it was obviously impossible for him to run as fast as Huang Daozhou.

After Zhu Cijiong personally welcomed Xu Guangqi into the first place on the left and sat down, he took out the recital of Nanya and Nanyang, handed it to Xu Guangqi, and then said directly: "Teacher, Youxuan, I came to you this time, mainly to discuss the issue of receiving tributary envoys, and now there are several small countries that want to send tributary envoys to the capital to pay tribute, I really don't know how to receive them, do you have any customization about this?" “

Xu Guangqi looked at the report carefully, and then handed it to Huang Daozhou, and then slowly explained: "The Ministry of Rites has a detailed record of the tributary system, but this tributary system was not actually aimed at the vassal states at the beginning, but against the two local forces of Duogan and Wusizang. “

There is also such a saying, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but ask curiously: "Oh, is the tributary system formulated for them?" “

Xu Guangqi nodded and said: "Yes, because those two places are located on the plateau, sparsely populated, and it is extremely inconvenient to send troops and officials, so Daming simply let the local forces over there take care of themselves, but stipulated that they should come to Daming Capital once a year to pay tribute." “

It turned out that this was the case, and Zhu Cijiong asked curiously: "Then what is the requirement for them to pay tribute?" “

Xu Guangqi shook his head and said: "There are no specific regulations for this, they are generally tributary products, but there are still regulations on the tributary personnel, generally only the kings or national teachers are qualified to lead the delegation to the capital to pay tribute." “

Zhu Cijiong asked again: "Then why did many small countries come to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute?" “

Xu Guangqi said proudly: "It's not because the Ming Dynasty gave tribute in return is very rich, the tribute is actually divided into three steps, the first step is to divide the seal, the second step is to pay tribute, the third step is to give tribute, at the beginning the tributary system is still very strict, because Duogan and Wu Sizang are the territory of the Ming Dynasty after all, so the kings and national teachers there have to go through the Ming Dynasty to succeed to the throne." However, with the increase of tributary countries, the division of the feud slowly became a formality, like Persia, the big food countries, how could they accept the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, they sent to the tribute mostly for the Ming Dynasty's final preferential tribute, because their tribute things are some worthless native products, and the Ming Dynasty gave silk, cloth, tea, porcelain and other necessities, and each time is ten times or even a hundred times the return, so they are all vying to send envoys to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute. “

fainted, it turned out that the tribute could still make a profit, Zhu Cijiong guessed: "Then aren't they desperately paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty!" “

Xu Guangqi said embarrassedly: "Yes, during the Xuande and Orthodox years, they only sent dozens of people to pay tribute with a little something; By the time of Jingtai, the scale had reached two or three hundred people, and the tribute things were pushed over one cart after another; In the Tianshun years, they all sent two or three thousand people to pay tribute with a huge convoy, and the Ming Dynasty couldn't afford it! “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he was taken aback, Nima, two or three thousand people, how many tributary items can be transported, how many tribute items can be transported, how can Daming vomit blood in compensation!

He asked with trepidation, "What should I do then?" “

Seeing that Xu Guangqi seemed to be hesitating, Huang Daozhou seized the opportunity and said: "If you want Weichen to say, directly send someone over to announce the "Ming Domain's Decree System", and if you are willing to accept it, you will be included in the Ming Domain's vassal state, and if you are not willing to accept it, you will directly destroy them!" “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he shook his head and said: "After all, they found it by themselves, which proves that they are still a little in awe of the Ming Dynasty, there are many countries in the world, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to clean them all up, and we should welcome those who can send tribute to the Ming Dynasty, Teacher, what do you say?" “

Xu Guangqi nodded and said: "The emperor is wise, it is a good thing to rush to the court after all, it proves that our Ming Dynasty has restored the status of the heavenly empire, as long as the number of envoys they send is stipulated, there is no need to see one and receive one." “