Speaking of which, Emperor Chongzhen, as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, especially with the current recovery of the Ming Dynasty, there is no need for him to come forward in person to meet the small envoy from the Tsushima Domain.

Even if the Tokugawa shogunate sent an envoy to let the officials of the Rifan or the Ministry of Rites come forward to meet them, it would be considered good.

After all, compared to the Ming Dynasty, the Tsushima Domain is simply a place with a large amount of sesame mung beans, not only has it never had a tributary relationship with the Ming Dynasty, but it was still an enemy with the Ming Dynasty because of the troubles.

Bi Denghan took these two people from the Tsushima Domain to Jingshi, and when he went to the Rifan Yuan to report and contact, neither the Rifan Yuan nor the Ministry of Rites did not treat these people very well.

It was in this situation that the Ministry of Rites and the officials of the Imperial Court were puzzled, and Emperor Chongzhen quickly received these people with condescension.

Today's Emperor Chongzhen doesn't care much about whether receiving such a foreign envoy with the respect of the Ming Emperor is whether it is condescending and condescending.

As long as it is beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, no matter how small and insignificant, he is willing to do it.

The reason for this is not that he likes to do everything himself.

However, at present, there are no candidates who can reassure him and handle this kind of overseas affairs well.

Now, in dealing with the Mongolian tribes of the outer domain, Emperor Chongzhen has gathered a large number of competent figures in the Li Fan Yuan.

In addition to Wu Weiying, the Marquis of Gongshun, there were also the former Ordos Jinong who was captured and surrendered, and the current first Feng'en Marquis Exuanchen, as well as the former Chahar Dou Tumen Gushan, and the Mongolian deputy envoy of the current Li Domain, Dorzidarhan, etc.

These figures, their understanding of the Mongolian foreign vassal tribes, is naturally far higher than those civil and military generals above the Ming Dynasty, not only can they provide Emperor Chongzhen with suggestions suitable for the Mongolian foreign vassals, but also Emperor Chongzhen can rest assured that they can take charge of themselves or act as envoys to meet, appease or contact other Mongolian tribal leaders.

The same is true on the DPRK issue, where there are not only officials such as Jiang Yueguang, deputy envoy of the Imperial Court of Finance, who have made many missions to the DPRK, but also civil and military officials such as Zhang Pu and Qiao Qitai stationed in the DPRK, as well as Mao Wenlong, Marquis of Anton, and Liu Xingzuo, the Bo of Pyongyang, and others, and these people can handle affairs related to the DPRK.

Even on the issue of contacting the Jin State after the establishment of the captivity, as long as Emperor Chongzhen has this plan, there are several candidates available, such as Zheng Zhihui, the eunuch who still stays in Jinzhou as a minister, and the eunuch Manzhu Xili, who is still stationed in Jinzhou as a minister, and the younger brother of Concubine Lan, Manzhu Xili.

Even at a critical time, the youngest son of Nuer Hachi, who was brought all the way by Mao Weizhang from Dongjiang Town, that is, the sixteenth son Fei Yangguo, could be used.

Now Hai Lanzhu's younger brother, who was born in the Horqin left-wing Borzigit clan, has already taken the initiative to cut off the ugly money rat tail and become a pedestrian in the pedestrian department of the Li Fan Yuan.

As for the eleven-year-old slave and young son Fei Yangguo who was brought to Beijing by Mao Weizhang, Emperor Chongzhen just asked him to be brought into the palace to take a look at Mao Weizhang when he met with him, and then sent an edict to Jinyiwei to take this Fei Yangguo to the Yansheng Mansion in Qufu, Shandong.

Emperor Chongzhen's edict, of course, did not explain Fei Yangguo's true identity, only said that this was the proton sent by the prince of the foreign domain to the Ming Dynasty to learn the Four Books and Five Classics of etiquette and music, and from now on he was fostered in the Yan Shenggong Mansion in Qufu for several years, so that the Yan Shenggong Mansion was well cared for and taught, so that he was familiar with the etiquette of the Celestial Empire.

Emperor Chongzhen's practice was not carried out publicly, only Gong Yonggu, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and the attendants and officials present that day, the military aircraft house, and the personnel handled by the Jinyi Guard.

If not, I am afraid that it will cause an uproar again.

Yansheng Gongfu is an extremely unique existence, from the Northern Song Dynasty to the title of Yan Shenggong, from the Northern Song Dynasty, to the Southern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty in the north of the Jin Kingdom, until the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, this title and title have been inherited by the Qufu Kong family hereditary for more than 600 years.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Yansheng Mansion continued to exist, and continued to be canonized by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and then hereditary to the later Republic of China.

Why has the Yansheng Mansion been able to survive so many dynastic changes and stand tall for nearly a thousand years?

In addition to the fact that all dynasties have respected Confucius, making the status of Confucius's descendants extremely respectful, the rest is the practice of the Yansheng Gongfu in the period of change of various dynasties.

Since receiving the courtesy and canonization of the Zhao family in the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to maintain the family status, the Yansheng Mansion really came to the Jurchens and the Mongols came to Mongolia.

And after taking refuge in these foreign foreign rulers, everything in the Yansheng Mansion was as usual, and it was also treated with the courtesy of these foreign rulers.

It is precisely because of such a precedent that after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, even the Nanming regime had not been eliminated, and the Yansheng Mansion in Qufu took the lead in voting for the Manchu Dynasty.

Since then, the Confucian family has shaved their hair with peace of mind, and continued to be the Yan Shenggong of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for nearly three hundred years.

For a prominent family with a long history, this is their way of survival.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with choosing to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages.

But as a spiritual symbol of a nation, or the spiritual bond of a nation, it is really a bit incompatible with the title of Yan Shenggong and the rituals that their ancestors taught others to observe.

If Confucius's own spirit in heaven knew that his descendants were at such a point of crisis in the life and death of the Chinese nation, they would be this kind of expression of bending, I am afraid that this spirit in heaven would be angry to death many times.

Of course, although Emperor Chongzhen enjoyed the title of the Kong family for nearly three hundred years in the Ming Dynasty, and finally changed his career to the Manchu Qing Dynasty when the bones of the Ming Dynasty were not cold, he was very disdainful and looked down on him, but he had no intention of touching the Kong family.

Because if the Yansheng Mansion cooperates, there are still many things that can be done in favor of Huaxia in the future.

If the Yansheng Mansion does not cooperate, then let them continue to exist as vases or decorations on the cake.

Kong Yinzhi, the reigning Yan Sheng Gong today, is the sixty-fourth generation Yan Sheng Gong of the Confucian family who took the initiative to shave his hair and change his clothes to welcome the Manchu Qing Dynasty in order to protect the interests of his family.

Originally, in history, Emperor Chongzhen would canonize Zhu Cihong as the crown prince in the second year after his eldest son Zhu Cihong was born, and soon after he canonized Zhu Cihong as the crown prince, he let the crown prince worship under Kong Yinzhi to learn etiquette, and named Kong Yinzhi, the holy prince of Yan, as the crown prince.

Now it is also the third year of Chongzhen, but in this life, of course, Kong Yinzhi does not have this treatment, but soon after Empress Zhou gave birth to the emperor's eldest son Zhu Cihong, Emperor Chongzhen remembered his tragic and short life in history, and somehow thought of Yan Shenggong.

On the night of March 19, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the crown prince Zhu Cihong once had the idea of fleeing to Qufu to seek help from Kong Yinzhi, the crown prince.

But when he was sent out of the city, he was penniless, and there were no guards around him, facing the thief army company camp besieging Jingshi, Zhu Cihong, who was terrified and helpless, had to return to the city, wanting to ask for help and take refuge in Jiading Bofu, but was betrayed by his grandfather and uncle, and since then he has fallen into the city and fallen into the hands of thieves.

Since Zhu Cihong was able to think of this prince and concubine at that time, it can be seen that he still has a certain status in the eyes of the crown prince.

However, based on Kong Yinzhi's performance in history, even if Zhu Cihong really ran to Qufu at that time and successfully found this Kong Yinzhi, it is probably difficult to say what will happen to him.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen thought of this Yan Shenggong Kong Yinzhi, and there were other factors, that is, Confucius and the imperial examination.

The reason why the Chongzhen Emperor now reuses Mongol-born officials in such an important institution as the Lifan Yuan is that he cannot find a few talents from the Manchu civil and military who can deal with the subject state of Fanbang.

The root cause of this situation is, of course, directly related to the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty.

Those scholars who only read the Four Books and the Five Classics, even if they were selected and admitted to the Jinshi after layers of selection, still did not know anything about the situation faced inside and outside the Ming Dynasty in this era.

With such a person, you can't feel at ease if you let him deal with internal affairs, let alone let them deal with external affairs.

Therefore, whether it was receiving the envoys of the Viceroyalty of Manlaga, the envoys of the Dutch East India Company in the Viceroyalty of Batavia, or the Jesuit missionaries in China, or, as he is now, the envoys of the Tsushima Domain, all these matters of dealing with the outside families of the Ming Dynasty, he could only do it himself.

And this situation can't be changed for a while, it's not that he doesn't want to change, but no one can change quickly.

Now Chongzhen's three-year township examinations in all provinces of the world have ended, and the list of new imperial examinations from all over the country has been sent to the Ministry of Rites in Beijing one after another.

Just before the township examination in various provinces began in mid-August, Emperor Chongzhen also thought about issuing an order to the Ministry of Rites in the north and south of Beijing to make some changes to the content of the township examination.

But after thinking about it, I still gave up, and in the end everything was carried out according to the old system.

If he had to change it in the form of a holy decree, it wasn't necessarily impossible.

However, at the critical stage of reforming and reorganizing the governor's office of the five armies in the north and south, when the drought in the north of the Ming Dynasty had not been alleviated, he still believed that it was better to have more than less.

After thinking about it, he stubbornly suppressed the impulse in his heart.

From the imperial examination, I thought of Confucius, from Confucius to the Yansheng Mansion of the Confucian family, and also thought of Kong Yinzhi, who was originally awarded the title of prince and prince in the third year of Chongzhen.

Just when Emperor Chongzhen was imaginative, Mao Weizhang took the Fei Yangguo to his majesty in Beijing to see him, so Emperor Chongzhen threw the unplaceable Fei Yangguo to the Yansheng Mansion to see if this Yansheng Mansion could really be razed into summer.