On March 29, the second year of Takatake, the Tokugawa clan and the Toyotomi clan faced off in Iwami.

When the war was about to break out, Xiao Ruxun received accurate information in Beijing that Toyotomi and Tokugawa had won and lost each other.

This information is very important to Xiao Ruxun, he can believe that the small battle between the two sides with hundreds of casualties is a hoax or a temptation, but a large-scale battle with tens of thousands of casualties is definitely not a deception, it must be a real fire, a real fire that even Toyotomi Hideji and Tokugawa Ieyasu can't grasp.

And this is exactly the effect that Xiao Ruxun needs, when they fight the real fire together, it is when they can't control their own fate, and they start acting at this moment, they don't have the time to react to join forces to resist anyway.

And from the beginning of this battle, Xiao Ruxun didn't plan to let Daqin fight alone, he wanted to improve the Chinese tributary system, and he couldn't let Daqin become a free protectorate of the surrounding countries, nor could he allow them to be emperors themselves behind closed doors.

As a younger brother, you must be prepared to charge behind your eldest brother, and there is no good thing of eating for nothing if you don't work.

The traditional Chinese tributary system was mainly based on modest relations and decency, and the promotion of national prestige was the most important, and the Celestial Empire needed to maintain a sense of decency, but there was little interest in its domestic and foreign affairs.

Of course, if this is a broken brain, of course, it is also biased, and Chinese who have experienced modern international struggles know the importance of public opinion, and in that era, the Central Plains Empire was the peak of public opinion.

Suzerainty is not a joke, it is a real thing, and if your king is not recognized by the Chinese emperor, it is illegal, and there is no righteous name.

As long as the Central Plains Empire maintains the peace and strength on the surface, and there is no major turmoil, the suzerainty of this public opinion highland will be stable and unshakable.

This is the greatest meaning of suzerainty.

However, in many cases, suzerainty is not so easy to use, limited to the rapid change of power in some countries, the new rulers are not consistent with the original king's thinking, and often cause chaos, and the Central Plains Empire does not have a strong means to deter them.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun also announced in the edict to the world announced in the second year of Longwu that he would strengthen the control of Great Qin over the surrounding nominal vassal states.

Xiao Ruxun's intention was to materialize and strengthen suzerainty, and this point had been clarified to the kings of the vassal states by the ambassadors sent abroad after the Chinese New Year in the second year of Longwu.

Daqin is not your free protectorate, you must respect Daqin enough, obey Daqin's orders, and when Daqin needs you, you must obey the order, so that when you encounter danger, Daqin will 'no help'.

If you disobey the yang and the yin, and obey on the surface, but secretly do not obey the orders of His Majesty the Emperor, and conquer each other without permission, or even infringe on the interests of the suzerain, then the Great Qin is angry and raises a crusade against you, and you don't have to complain.

All these circumstances showed that the Great Qin Emperor Xiao Ruxun had a strong desire to control, and the monarchs of the vassal states realized the difference between the Great Qin and the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this difference was fully experienced by Xiao Ruxun during the period when he was guarding Burma, through the powerful Zhennan Army.

At present, the Zhennan Army has become the army of the Great Qin Empire, and its military strength has expanded unprecedentedly, and under such a deterrent, even Na Ruixuan, the king of Siam, who has always dominated Southeast Asia with his strong military power, feels worried.

In the face of Great Qin's strong demands, they were in a dilemma.

Luzon was the first to respond to the call of Great Qin, although in fact Luzon was already the territory of Great Qin, and even the prime minister of Luzon was appointed by the Great Qin government, but Luzon still maintained the dignity of a country on the surface.

The guy who took the shit and was named the king of Luzon is still alive and well, living like a pig.

And the reason why Xiao Ruxun kept the Luzon government was to make Luzon a response to all kinds of voices in this situation, and to give strong political pressure and public opinion pressure to other countries that dared not to agree, forcing them to obey.

With Luzon's response, North Korea suddenly realized that its position as the first loyal dog of Daqin was not guaranteed.

North Korea, which had just experienced the Jurchen Rebellion, really did not have the slightest power to make trouble.

At that time, when the Jurchen Rebellion ended, the Korean government almost lost the strength to maintain the existence of the country, and it was difficult to guarantee the livelihood of the Korean king Li Hao, and Xiao Ruxun needed to give silver taels to maintain dignity.

Xiao Ruxun ordered Liao Zhong, the commander of the Liaodong Corps, and Liang Menglong, the governor of Liaodong, to help the North Korean government stay afloat, and use the strength of the Great Qin army to deter the younger generations, so that the North Korean government could tide over the difficulties safely, and retrain the central army to maintain the existence of the central government.

Then Xiao Ruxun ordered the imperial merchants controlled by the inner palace to enter North Korea to buy local Korean products, such as ginseng and animal fur, and encouraged the private merchants in Jiangnan to bravely go to North Korea to do business, saying that North Korea is now in ruins and needs Daqin merchants to activate the economy.

Then Xiao Ruxun ordered the North Korean government to collect commercial taxes in accordance with the rules of Daqin, and not to torture Daqin merchants privately, and any violations of law and discipline by Daqin merchants must be interrogated by the embassy of Daqin in North Korea, and the Koreans can only observe.

The DPRK should give the greatest preferential treatment to the merchants of the Great Qin, and any people of the Great Qin should enjoy the best treatment of the DPRK and enjoy extraterritoriality.

In addition, Xiao Ruxun also allowed North Korea to borrow low-interest loans from Daqin in the name of the central government to tide over economic difficulties, and slowly return it in installments when money is available, or use the country's mineral resources to pay off debts, such as grain, such as timber, and metal deposits.

Or if Daqin "leases" some strategically located ports to North Korea to use as Daqin's military ports, and the Daqin government pays some fees to the North Korean government, or uses loans to offset them, anyway, the North Korean government can think of any way to propose it to Daqin, and Daqin is willing to discuss with North Korea.

Anyway, after this battle, the North Korean government basically lost its grasp of the locality, and if it wanted to recover, it had to be helped by Great Qin, in order to maintain its rule, Li Hao was willing to do anything, so he began to find out that there were so many things in North Korea that could be exchanged for money.

He is gone on the road of exchanging money.

After some tossing, a large number of Daqin businessmen and bold people went to North Korea to make a lot of money, and after a few months, they really stabilized in the Gyeonggi area of North Korea and started doing business, and the business was doing well, and the economy of North Korea slowly improved.

At the same time, several mineral deposits in Korea were sold to the imperial merchants of the Great Qin, and the eunuchs in charge of the palace sent people to prepare for the mining.

It can be said that North Korea's economy has been slowly controlled by Daqin, so even the country's income has to rely on Daqin merchants to do business, and they collect business taxes to barely maintain it.

Thinking of this, the king of Joseon, Li Hao, almost sent someone to urge the envoy to Jingshi to show his loyalty to Xiao Ruxun, saying that the DPRK was willing to obey Daqin's orders.

With the first there is the second, with the second there is the third, then the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth.

Many vassal states expressed their willingness to obey Great Qin's orders, unite around Great Qin, and take the Son of Great Qin as the supreme leader, especially to put an end to such a thing as attacking each other, which instantly gave hope to some small countries in danger.

Behind Luzon and Korea were these small countries with weak national strength and threatened sovereignty by other countries, who were busy recognizing the suzerainty of the Great Qin Emperor and announcing that they would follow in the footsteps of the Great Qin Empire.

Of course, there are still many vassal states who are hesitating, or don't plan to agree at all, these people, Xiao Ruxun will slowly clean up.

He wants to leave Daqin with a rich enough family foundation, as well as a place where he can transfer domestic pressure in times of crisis.

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