Zhu Youzhen was silent for a long time before continuing to Feng Quan: "If the Tokugawa shogunate is really allowed to successfully implement the restrictions on foreign trade, then not only will our merchants in the Ming Dynasty suffer losses, but also the customs duties will be lost, and the import of gold, silver and copper from Japan will be lost, and the currency market of the Ming Dynasty will also have the problem of money shortage, not to mention, the losses caused by the workshops and people in various places."

However, fighting a war with a powerful overseas vassal such as Japan over trade issues will not be supported by officials and gentry. For them, fighting a war means spending money, and spending money means raising taxes. For the sake of a group of profit-seeking businessmen, but to take money out of their pockets to fight this battle, it will inevitably arouse the opposition of public opinion in the government and the opposition.

But for a rogue country like Japan, words alone cannot make him admit his mistakes. So in order to protect the interests of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect the interests of the imperial court, we need a limited war. We need to make the Tokugawa shogunate realize their mistake and not turn this war into a full-scale conflict between the Ming and Japan.

Therefore, I need you to spread these policies among the merchants involved in overseas trade first, so that those merchants will first stir up dissatisfaction with Japan. You can contact the Daming Times and ask the newspaper to make a few special interviews about the difficulties suffered by our businessmen in Japan.

Also, Elizabeth has also returned to Beijing from Macau, and the Portuguese merchants who followed her to Beijing may have a deeper grudge against Japan, and you can contact them and get them to side with us.

Finally, next year will be the 33rd anniversary of the end of the Korean War, and it is necessary for us to hold a ceremony to commemorate those Ming soldiers who died in the Korean War. You can contact the DPRK ambassador to Beijing and ask them to join us in holding a ceremony to commemorate the fallen soldiers of the Korean War and the friendship between the two peoples. ”

Regarding Chongzhen's previous words, Feng Quan still recorded them very seriously. Whether it was to incite businessmen or contact the Portuguese, he thought it was a good idea, and as long as the people first stirred up public opinion that they were disgusted with Japan, then if they really wanted to start a war against Japan, they would have public opinion support.

But for commemorating the Korean War, Feng Quan was a little at a loss, and he couldn't help but ask Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, the Korean State has just been conquered by the Later Jin Dynasty once, I'm afraid it won't be useful to pull them in, right?" And even if the Korean state has not been broken by Houjin, with their force, it will only drag us back. ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded at him and replied: "I know that North Korea can't play a role, but it's okay for him to wave his flag and shout on the side." And the war is over, North Korea can ask for more reparations for us, I Ming saved North Korea out of my own pocket, this money was not counted before, but now it always has to be calculated.

Those North Koreans are very cunning, and if you count money with them, they will definitely cry poor. Now let them ask Japan for reparations for the Korean War, and the money that Japan contributed will be directly used to cover the war expenses for entering Korea that year. And isn't that a good excuse for war?

I don't plan to pay for this war against the Tokugawa shogunate..."

If it is about writing poems and essays, 100 Zhu Youzhen can't match Feng Quan, but when discussing this kind of military affairs, Feng Quan is left at a loss. After all, he is not Hong Chengchou, most of his intelligence and intelligence are confined to the Four Books and Five Classics, and the rest is also used in pondering the thoughts of the superiors.

Although he didn't understand how Chongzhen didn't pay to teach the Tokugawa shogunate, Feng Quan still raised his hands in favor of teaching the Tokugawa shogunate, whether it was to gain the emperor's favor or to protect his own interests.

And when Feng Quan left with Chongzhen's instructions, Zhu Youzhen also got up and instructed Lu Qi in the room: "Prepare the carriage, I want to meet the princess of the Toyotomi family." ”

As the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen naturally couldn't go so openly to meet a Japanese woman who was robbed. So after the emperor's car entered a mansion outside the Donghua Gate, Zhu Youzhen entered the mansion and changed into civilian clothes, and left through the back door in another light carriage.

Compared with the way the team travels with them, this kind of light and simple way of traveling makes Zhu Youzhen feel more comfortable. Because he could see the bustling pedestrians and carriages passing by in the streets where the carriages passed, they would not notice who was sitting in the carriages passing by. For him, it was like the real world.

However, Zhu Youzhen also knows that this kind of life has basically lost his chances. It is only in a place like the capital where the security is better, that the ministers of the court turn a blind eye to his occasional micro-service trips, but outside the capital, he does not want to do this. Whether he admits it or not, the Ming Emperor is the backbone of the country, and once the emperor himself has a problem, there will be problems with the operation of the country.

Zhu Youzhen, who rarely traveled as a civilian, looked at all kinds of passers-by outside through the car window with great interest, listened to the occasional bargaining or quarrel floating into the carriage, and forgot his troubles about political affairs for a while. He felt that if he hadn't crossed through Zhu Youzhen, he would definitely record the lives of people in this era, so that future generations would know what the daily life of the Ming Dynasty was like.

When Zhu Youzhen was distracted, the carriage turned into a quiet alley, and finally stopped in front of a courtyard gate shaded by Huai. After Zhu Youzhen got out of the car, he looked at the quiet environment around him, and couldn't help but praise him, before walking into the yard. Facing a garden is the gate of this courtyard, which leads along a winding bluestone road, and at the end of the road is a small pavilion on the edge of the sea.

When Zhu Youzhen walked here, in front of this small pavilion called Juxiangtai, a petite woman in a kimono with several maids came forward and greeted him.

Zhu Youzhen stepped forward to help the woman up, and after looking at her, he greeted with a smile: "I should call you Miss Toyotomi Chiyo now?" Or Master Tian Xiuni? ”

Compared with the Dongqing Temple, the current Tianxiuni is thinner, but her face has become more beautiful, and she replied calmly to Chongzhen's question: "Whether it is Toyotomi Chiyo or Tianxiuni, in the eyes of the Buddha, they are all the same." Whatever His Majesty wants to call it, it is the same for Yu. ”

Tian Xiuni's answer surprised Zhu Youzhen, but he didn't say anything more, just chatted with Tian Xiuni and walked towards the Juxiang Terrace.

Juxiangtai is a single-storey building facing east and west, bordering Shichahai Lake to the east. Due to the low terrain on the east side, in order to prevent flooding, the designers simply raised the east half of the room to form a waterfront platform-style building. In this way, the entire interior of the building is divided into two rooms, east and west.

The middle partition wall is opened, and the banquet can be placed on the west side, and the female music is performed on the east platform, with the empty sea behind it, which is a place for banquets with excellent scenery. And the building is surrounded by all kinds of chrysanthemums, in the period when the chrysanthemums are in full bloom, it is the fragrance of flowers, so it is called chrysanthemum platform.

However, Chongzhen came today not for a banquet, but for a conversation, and the partition wall in between was naturally not demolished. Tian Xiuni led Chongzhen to the high platform to the east, leaving the others in the outer room to the west to make water and tea for him, which became an excellent place for private conversation.

While Tianxiuni was fiddling with the charcoal stove to boil water, Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting cross-legged on a brocade mat, was also looking at the layout in the high platform. Although the windows on three sides of the high platform are opened, the inside of the windows are closed with gauze tents, which does not affect the lighting, but isolates the peeps of the cruise ships in the high platform.

All the furniture in the high platform has been removed, leaving only a low table and two cushions for serving guests, so that the whole high platform looks simple. On the desk in front of Zhu Youzhen, there was only a plate of plums and a flower with chrysanthemums**.

Seeing Tian Xiuni concentrating on cooking tea, Zhu Youzhen was embarrassed to distract her, so he quietly took the plum in the dish and tasted it, and soon he frowned and spit it out, not daring to try this sour snack again.

When Zhu Youzhen was bored, Tian Xiu Ni finally brought the tea to him, he quickly picked up the foaming tea soup and drank it all, the taste of the tea soup was honestly Zhu Youzhen didn't taste it, but the sourness of the plum in his mouth was finally diluted. Looking at Chongzhen's way of drinking tea, Tian Xiuni finally couldn't help frowning, but she didn't say anything about it.

Zhu Youzhen, who put down the tea bowl, said happily: "This tea is good, but unfortunately there are too many scum, I still prefer to drink tea." ”

With his hands in front of his knees, Tian Xiuni, who was kneeling there meticulously, finally couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty should respect the etiquette of the tea ceremony, how can Your Majesty, as the monarch of the Heavenly Empire, be so light?" Although Yu is a foreigner, he also knows: China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; There is the beauty of uniforms, which is called Hua. If Your Majesty does not observe etiquette, how can you govern China and let the guests from all over the world obey? ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't react to Tian Xiuni's advice, he still sat cross-legged and looked at Tian Xiuni for a long time before he smiled and said, "What you said is very good, but there is one thing you still haven't understood." Etiquette is a thing that is used by superiors to teach subordinates to obey their own rules, not to be used to bind the shackles of superiors.

You see, we invented the etiquette of drinking tea in the Tang Dynasty, and in the Song Dynasty it became the art of tea ceremony that fascinated you. But when we find it uncomfortable to drink tea with this etiquette, we discard it as if we had lost an old garment, and we don't feel sorry for it. But you can only cling to the rules of the tea ceremony, and you don't dare to deviate at all, do you know why? ”

Tian Xiuni was a little displeased with Chongzhen's rudeness, but she still couldn't resist her curiosity and asked, "Please show your majesty?" ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled and said: "Because I don't wear this dress, Huaxia is still Huaxia." But if you discard this garment, you can only return it as a barbarian. So, there is such a thing as etiquette, we can create it, and naturally we can discard it.

Just like the current relationship between China and Japan, just because my grandfather was able to tolerate Japan's rudeness does not mean that I can tolerate Japan's rudeness. Now I want to ask you again, do you want to be the descendant of the Toyotomi family, Toyotomi Chiyohime, or do you want to continue to be a heavenly shunny who has no quarrel with the world? ”