Seeing this scene, Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly asked Chu Xianzhang to replace Cao Huachun and start reading another edict. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This edict about Korea unexpectedly caused a commotion among the courtiers in the palace, and the courtiers knew the news that the Korean envoy had come to Daming Jingshi, and there were many well-informed courtiers who knew the reason why the Korean envoy came.

When they heard Chu Xianzhang read out that North Korea recognized that the two lands of Xianjing Road and Ping'an Road, which originally belonged to North Korea, belonged to the Ming Dynasty from now on, the courtiers kneeling in the hall looked at the position of the Korean envoy.

It's not that these Ming courtiers like to turn their elbows outward, it's not that they are unhappy when they see the Ming occupying more land, they like to question or oppose the emperor, but it's just out of a long-standing distrust.

They did not believe that without their participation, the emperor would be able to govern the world well, and they did not believe that without their advice, the emperor would be able to get rid of the influence of some villains and handle the affairs of the world fairly.

Including for such a thing as North Korea, they did not believe that without the full discussion of the ministers of the imperial court, they finally reached an agreement, and the emperor could hide in the deep palace and handle things well, without causing trouble or disaster to the Ming Dynasty.

No one can say when this kind of distrust between the emperor and the minister was formed, but since Emperor Zhengde, the relationship between the monarch and the minister of the Ming Dynasty has become very strange.

When you are an emperor, you don't trust the minister to think about it for the sake of the royal family, and you don't trust the minister to think about the emperor's interests for the sake of the Ming Dynasty.

Although this relationship is very strange and extremely unfavorable to everyone, this relationship of mutual suspicion and mutual distrust persisted until the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Chu Xianxian quickly finished reading out the will on North Korea, which was not long in the first time, and although the ministers kneeling in the hall were full of suspicion and looked at each other, no one stood up to speak.

Next, the three envoys from North Korea stood up very calmly, knelt down, and received the order of thanksgiving, which made many ministers in the palace even more stunned.

However, the ministers who can kneel in the Imperial Palace at this moment are not daredevils, look at the cabinet ministers with a calm face, and then look at the Korean envoys with a grateful face, and the civil and military officials in the main hall will soon be silent.

The three envoys of the Korean State have all received the decree of thanksgiving, what else can they say as courtiers of the Ming Dynasty?

Because no matter what, it is a rare happy event for the Ming Dynasty to be able to expand its territory!

Next, another newly returned eunuch Gao Shiming, who came out to read the emperor's edict of reward.

Emperor Chongzhen once again took out two million silver dollars from the treasury, and the courtiers, nobles, pro-army, guards, and soldiers in Beijing, as well as the soldiers of the Nine Sides who were not in Beijing, meritorious and inactive, all the rewards were in place.

For those prisoners who have not been convicted by the Imperial Prison and are willing to accept the pardon, this time the Imperial Court will also grant pardons to varying degrees by the Criminal Department and the various procuratorial departments according to the severity of the crimes.

The reason why I say this is because the amnesty of the prisoners in the world by Emperor Chongzhen is not an unconditional pardon, but the prisoners who have been imprisoned are turned into coolies in the official mines of the imperial court, or according to the severity of the crime, and then exiled to Andong, Yingzhou and Dongfan according to the distance of the journey.

After all the New Year's Day edicts were read, according to the custom, hundreds of officials went to the table to congratulate the emperor on the New Year, and the tribal envoys from the Saibei steppe, as well as the envoys from Korea, also presented their own congratulatory tables.

By the time these congratulatory tables were read out one by one, the time had passed, and most of the Ming courtiers kneeling inside and outside the hall were already numb in their legs, and the officials who had not hidden food in advance were even more tired and hungry, kneeling with black eyes, only hoping to end it early and go home for the New Year.

Fortunately, after all the procedures were completed, the cabinet ministers instead of the Son of Heaven sacrificed to the heavens and the earth, the ancestors, the mountains and rivers, and the sheji, and the massive sacrifices were also commanded by Jinyiwei and the personnel of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, and they were transported to the outside of the noon gate.

Transported to the noon gate to wait for the ministers, there was also the reward that the emperor had just promised at the court meeting, that is, a stack of Chongzhen silver dollars, as well as a piece of fine Suzhou silk and Songjiang cotton cloth.

At three o'clock, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty finally survived to the end of the New Year's Day meeting in the second year of Chongzhen, and once again under the guidance of the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the former division of the Yulin Guard, according to the previous order, they came out of the square outside the noon gate, and according to the size of the official position, they received the reward and distributed the sacrifices of the court.

Of course, the rewards of the cabinet members and the ministers of military aircraft did not need to go to the square outside the noon gate to receive them, and one person had a thousand brand-new Chongzhen silver dollars, and one person ten horses of fine silk and cotton cloth, which had already been prepared and placed in the duty room of each cabinet minister.

When all the ministers and envoys left, Emperor Chongzhen also gave the imperial attendants and military attaches around him a New Year's reward, and gave them a big holiday.

Including those Western missionaries in Beijing, whether it is Taixi Zhuyi who has served in the various yamen of the Ming Dynasty, or the red-haired devils who served in front of the Liaodong Army, they are all among the rewards.

During this era, Western Jesuit missionaries and retired military officers and soldiers, as well as Taixi artisans, played a very important role in the Ming Dynasty.

It can even be said that the role they played in the process of rearmament of the Ming Dynasty is irreplaceable.

For the Jesuit missionaries, their lives were dedicated to God, and in order to promote their missionary work in China, they were very willing to serve the Ming court and pass on the knowledge and technology they had mastered to the Chinese, although subjectively for missionary purposes, but objectively it had the effect of promoting China's technological progress.

And those adventurers who came to the East with the dream of making a fortune and adventures were mainly composed of some retired officers and soldiers and ocean-going sailors, even in their own countries, they lived on the edge of the law, and there was no concept of the motherland at all.

At that time, the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty, from the emperor to the scholars, had not yet formed the stinky problem of closing their eyes and ears like the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations, and they all had an open mind to the advanced knowledge and technology of the West, and absorbed everything they could.

Not to mention far away, let's just say that the stubborn and eccentric temper of Emperor Jiajing, he grew up in the inland area of Hubei, and later has been living in the interior, to say how lofty and broad he has a global vision, it is pure blindness.

But such an emperor, after hearing that the Portuguese merchant ships on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty had more powerful artillery than the Ming Dynasty, he immediately ordered the governor of Guangdong to find a way to get a few to develop, disassemble and imitate, which is the origin of the Ming Franc cannon.

A total of more than 90,000 such Francophone cannons were imitated, which were all over the Ming coastal guard posts and naval warships, and later promoted to the nine sides of the line.

Even the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who was born in the deep palace and grew up in the hands of women, and had never read a book for a few days, heard that the Westerners had the more powerful Hongyi cannon, so he quickly agreed to send someone to purchase it, and then deployed it in the Jingshi and Liaodong fronts.

The reason why Yuan Chonghuan was able to make meritorious contributions in Ningyuan many times was that without the Hongyi cannon ordered by the Emperor of the Apocalypse, no matter how capable he was, it would be difficult for him to make contributions to the dangerous Liaodong front.

At that time, the number of Western missionaries and Portuguese retired officers living and fighting in the Ming Army was not one or two, but several hundred.

Without an open mind, this phenomenon is impossible.

This is one of the biggest differences between the emperors of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu emperors, whether they really regard the land under their feet as their homeland, whether they really put the interests of the Chinese nation in an important position, compare it, it is clear.

The reason why the emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not have such an open mind was because they were not Han Chinese, at least they were selfish, and they put the interests of their Manchus above the fundamental interests of the entire Chinese nation.

It is precisely because they have such selfish motives that they are afraid of the progress of civilization, especially the progress of military technology, and that the popularization and popularization of new guns and firearms technology will threaten their so-called fundamental statecraft, that is, the riding and archery skills of the children of the Eight Banners.

Even Kangxi, who was touted as a god in later generations, said that riding and archery was the root of Manchuria.

He found a group of Western missionaries himself, who were studying mathematics, geography, and foreign languages, could he not know the benefits of these things to the Chinese nation?

Could he have wondered if these things would allow China to move forward so that it could go toe-to-toe with the Tessie colonial powers?

Of course he does.

But he didn't spread it, he didn't promote it, on the contrary, he chose control, he chose blockade, and he chose to ban destruction.

Because he feared that these things would jeopardize the Manchurians' rule over China.

And this is the beginning of the humiliation and tragedy of the Chinese nation in later generations.