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But the Ming Emperor just didn't meet them, because the emperor said that he didn't want to let the Ming establish the relationship between the two countries with a higher status than the Ryukyus as in the past, and the relationship between the two countries was already very clear, that is, the relationship between countries guaranteed by international treaties and equals.

Xiang Dehong is already a legendary figure in the Ryukyus after borrowing troops to restore the country, and even if it is the history books of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam in the future, I am afraid that he will have a biography of him, and in terms of storytelling alone, it is comparable to the strategists of the Warring States Period, as for the political plots of various countries in it, novelists will not be interested.

This kind of legendary figure, but also to maintain his legendary name, he is the initiator of the Ryukyu King to turn to the Ming Dynasty, but after the Ryukyu passed the letter of state to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty refused to accept it, believing that the relationship between the two countries should be treated as equals, and there is no need to divide the high and low.

Xiang Tokuhiro is paranoid that Ryukyu should follow etiquette, which is the way for Ryukyu to survive. For the past 500 years, Ryukyu has been sandwiched between China and Japan, and if it had not been paid tribute to the two countries every year, would it have survived to this day? Japan's injustice, sending unreasonable soldiers, and destroying the Ryukyu Society, it is the Ming Dynasty that borrowed troops to help Ryukyu recover the country, such a benevolent and righteous country, and has a great grace for the survival of the Ryukyus, if the Ryukyus have a grace and do not repay it, and lose the righteousness, can it still survive?

Judging from these words, although it is borrowed from the mysterious and mysterious etiquette to say things, who dares to say that this is not the way for a small country to stand, and later small countries such as Finland were also sandwiched between the two major forces of the United States and the Soviet Union, relying on proximity to the big countries to preserve themselves.

The Ryukyus know very well that they can't survive on their own for a long time, so now they inherit the old practice and pay tribute to the most powerful country, so it is possible to continue to exist, and the Ming Dynasty is obviously stronger than other countries, as for the etiquette obstacles, Xiang Dehong also explained the past, he believes that the Ryukyu Kingdom died first and then recovered, and it is no longer the Ryukyu of the past, and the Ryukyus do not intend to sever relations with the Manchu Qing, in the past they can belong to both tomorrow and Qing Day, and now they can also belong to the Ming and Qing dynasties, this is not injustice, but righteousness, The Manchu Qing Dynasty had a two-hundred-year blessing grace for the Ryukyus, and the Ming Dynasty had the grace of survival and extinction, and the Ryukyu paid tribute to both countries at the same time, which was ungrateful, not the two ends of the first rat.

As for Japan, Xiang Dehong strongly advocated and sent Japan a letter of "Absolute Japanese Letter", just like the ancient "Absolute Qin Book", which counted Japan's untrustworthy and unrighteous acts, saying that Ryukyu served Japan, like a son serving his father, but Japan repeatedly invaded and bullied the small, and finally wanted to destroy the Ryukyu Society, Ryukyu in Japan, there is no trace of disrespect, Japan has no grace in Ryukyu, and Ryukyu does not want to associate with such a faithless, unrighteous and cruel country.

The king of the Ryukyus didn't want to cause trouble, it was easy to return to the country, isn't it good to live a small life in a down-to-earth manner, but the prestige of Xiang Dehong is too high, and the king of the Ryukyus can't hold it down, and there is a large group of Fujian officials who have returned from Fujian to speak out, so they can only cater to it and send a letter of renunciation to Japan. It caused a lot of turmoil in Japan, and many ronins and angry young people shouted for war again, and there were also seppuku Mingzhi.

After severing relations with Japan, it was to declare himself a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, which the Ryukyu King fully agreed, because the Ryukyu really needed a more reliable backer than the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the Ming himself did not agree, not only did not agree, but withdrew troops from the Ryukyus one after another, scaring the Ryukyu King who was worried about Japan's retaliation enough, and it was no more than the United States in later generations to withdraw troops from Korea, so that the Koreans panicked less.

After the Ming Kingdom was not accepted, Xiang Dehong organized a huge diplomatic mission and came to the Ming Dynasty to visit the emperor, but the emperor did not dare to see them, so they knelt in front of the palace for more than ten days.

The Ming Foreign Affairs Department sent officials to accompany and persuade every day, and the army maintained law and order next to it and isolated the people.

Newspaper reporters gather here every day, constantly taking pictures of wearing ancient costumes that have been inherited for a long time, and then send them back to the agency every day to make a difference. Their arrival has made the sales of the newspaper good, and the people of Daming have a little more to talk about after dinner.

After more than ten days, when they knelt for a month, Zhu Jinglun reluctantly met Xiang Dehong.

Xiang Dehong was extremely respectful, three kneeling and nine knocking all the etiquette was readily available, Zhu Jinglun waited for him to finish these before letting people give him a seat, this old guy still didn't sit, saying that where there was a seat for him in front of the Son of Heaven, he knelt on the ground and listened to the order.

Zhu Jinglun asked people to find a blanket, sat on the ground himself, and reasoned with him bitterly. Tell him that the times have changed, the system of going up and down is outdated, and now the emphasis is on treating countries as equals.

Xiang Dehong said that the Yi people's set of rules and regulations system, no half of the benefit to the Ryukyus, can not protect the Ryukyu community, Japan is to learn the Yi people's rules, so they want to destroy the Ryukyus, Ryukyu will never dare to learn this kind of untrustworthy and unrighteous rules, must abide by the courtiers, with the courtesy of the Ming Dynasty.

It doesn't matter if the Ryukyus don't pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, the key is that it is difficult for the Vietnamese to accept to continue to worship a Central Plains country as the suzerain, and the Ryukyus are the flag set up for Vietnam, which is to lead Vietnam into the urn, if you just help the Ryukyus to restore the country, and annex the Ryukyus in a blink of an eye, this will only make the current Vietnam, the future of North Korea run farther and farther.

So Zhu Jinglun really didn't intend to make the Ryukyu Kingdom a vassal, but he didn't expect the Ryukyu Kingdom's attitude to be so resolute.

Receiving Xiang Dehong, it must be that Zhu Jinglun has already thought of countermeasures, so he put forward a new proposal.

"You see, would it be good for you and me to form a brotherly country? Like the ancient Song Liao, the etiquette is still exchanged every year, and they treat each other with courtesy. ”

Of course, the Song Dynasty seems to have suffered a little loss and sent money to people every year, but that money is nothing to the Song people, and it has not lost face, because they are commensurate with each other.

After the covenant for hundreds of years, there was no large-scale war between the two countries, the exchange of courtesy, the envoys were courteous, the two sides made a total of 380 times, there was a famine in the border areas of the Liao Dynasty, the Song Dynasty would send people to the border relief, the news of the collapse of Song Zhenzong came, and the Liao Shengzong "gathered the ministers of the Han Dynasty to mourn, and the concubines and concubines were all stained."

This kind of peace treaty, which can last for hundreds of years, has not been seen in the history of the West, so the diplomacy of Westerners focuses on immediate interests.

But Xiang Dehong still disagreed, thinking that Ryukyu and the Ming Dynasty could not be compared with Song Liao, Song and Liao were both big countries, and there was no kindness between them, Ryukyu was a small country, and by the deep grace of the Ming Dynasty, he did not dare to have a non-dividing thought, and he only wanted to serve the big country wholeheartedly and seek the survival of the Ryukyu Society in the world.

It doesn't make sense at all, but it doesn't matter, because Zhu Jinglun said that it was the Ryukyuan people who didn't listen.

So he was forced to have no choice but to let the Foreign Affairs Department accept the gift of Ryukyu as a minister, and agreed to pay tribute to Ryukyu during the Lantern Festival every year, and return the gift to the Ming Dynasty every year.

As for other relations, the Ming Foreign Affairs Department immediately publicly announced its policy towards the Ryukyus, first, the Ming subjects were not allowed to oppress the Ryukyuan, and the Ryukyuan people were treated as Chinese in the Ming Dynasty, and the trade between the two countries was subject to the treaty.

In fact, the Ryukyus were treated as an independent state, with only a few additional procedures for tribute and favors.

At the same time, the Ryukyu garrison will no longer be stationed, which can be regarded as fulfilling its promise to Japan, not interfering in the internal affairs of the Ryukyus, and leaving the Ryukyus to be independent.

Moreover, the news that Zhu Jinglun hoped to form a brotherly country with Ryukyu also spread through various channels, and it was Ryukyu who insisted on serving the Ming Dynasty with courtesy, and the Ming Dynasty was absolutely not compulsive.

This kind of preferential treatment, I am not afraid that the Vietnamese will not be moved in the future, once they are bullied by France and can't stand it, they will definitely find a way to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty only needs to find a suitable reality, such as the situation of the Sino-French War, to expel the French forces from Vietnam, so as to expand the sphere of influence to the south of the seas.

As long as the French forces are expelled, then the Philippines is close at hand, without the protection of France, Spain, which is also a Catholic country, can not hold the Philippines, and the Philippines has not agreed to the Ming Dynasty to send a consulate in Manila, and does not agree to the Ming labor company to buy land in the Philippines to reclaim, if it were not for the protection of the French forces, the Ming Dynasty would have begun to seek opportunities to drive Spain out of the Philippines.

In this process, the British attitude is very important, the Ming Dynasty expanded to the South Seas, and the British could not sit idly by. It will definitely be obstructed, or it will begin to build a diplomatic network to contain the Ming Dynasty. In the end, under the threat of the British Navy, they will not change this conventional routine.

In the long run, the rise of the Ming Dynasty must be a huge impact on political geography, and Britain as the builder of the international order, the defender and vested interests of the Ming Dynasty naturally want to contain the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the war of arms expansion cannot stop for a moment.

The basis of the expansion of armaments is economic strength, and in the past two years, the Ming economy has begun to grow strongly.

Since the beginning of the previous year, with the recovery of the international economy, the economy began to resume rapid growth, and the upsurge of establishing new industries began to rise, bringing the most considerable growth boom after the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

In the first year, there were more than 500 new industrial enterprises, in the second year more than 1,000, and this year the number of new industries has reached 2,000.

It is not surprising that Japan also ushered in such a development boom before and after the First Sino-Japanese War, and before the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan only had more than 3,340 factories. Eight years after the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the number of factories increased to 8,274. Not only the number has increased, but also the quality has increased, and the number of factories using power has increased from 675 to 3,741, an increase of 4.54 times.

The economic development of the Ming Dynasty did not depend on the war, because the economic growth began long before the Japanese reparations, so there were other reasons for economic development.