There was a stove in the Qingyuan Palace, and Zhu Qiming invited Lu Xiyu to sit next to the stove, "Sister, what's going on?" ”

Lu Xiyu sat down and said calmly: "My father is a member of the Ministry of Rites, I have often followed my father to the Ministry of Rites since I was a child, and I have seen the correspondence between the Ming Dynasty and Japan, as well as the historical materials of Japan. ”

Wow, never forget, talented girl! However, it doesn't seem appropriate to say "since childhood", and you don't necessarily have that much age now!

Zhu Qiming secretly spit out the groan, and said, "Sister, please speak." ”

Lu Xiyu turned his head to look out of the door, and said eloquently: "This matter is a long story. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Japan entered the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the whole country was in frequent wars, and many shogunate warriors were displaced, fell into the sea as pirates, and crossed the sea to plunder the Ming Dynasty and the coastal areas of Korea, and the Ming Dynasty was overwhelmed. ”

"In July of the 14th year of Hongwu, the Japanese king Lianghuai sent the monk Ruyao and others to pay tribute to the ······"

"Hey, that's it, there are only kings in Japan, how can there be emperors!" Zhu Qiming interjected.

Lu Xiyu pouted: "Do you still want to hear it?" ”

"Hehe, sister, please speak."

Lu Xiyu pondered for a moment, "Emperor Taizu Hongwu ordered the Ministry of Rites to write a letter to the Japanese king Lianghuai, and the wording in the book is very harsh. ”

"The Ming Dynasty Rite Department Shangshu pays tribute to the king of Japan, the king lives in the vicissitudes of life, and the people are passed down from generation to generation, and now they do not obey God's orders, and they do not keep their own points, but they know that the sea is dangerous, and the mountains are solid, and they are arrogant, insulting their neighbors, and the people are thieves, and the emperor will fake his hands to others, and the disaster will come to an end!"

"I am ordered by the Supreme to move the text to the king, if the king does not judge the huge and small, and the frog at the bottom of the well looks up at the mirror sky, thinking that it is big, is not the source of the gap······? If rebellion is not frequent, and China is fraught, it will be woe! ”

There are two meanings between the lines of this letter: first, to order Japan to purge the Japanese of the Japanese invaders; Second, Japan was forced to take China as the right thing and come to pay tribute.

Zhu Qiming was surprised by Lu Xiyu's super memory, but he was puzzled, where is the emperor?

The fire burned more and more, and Lu Xiyu's face was flushed. "This Lianghuai is not the king of Japan, but a prince, the eleventh prince of Emperor Daigo after the Southern Dynasty of Japan."

Prince? Zhu Qiming couldn't believe that Daming actually regarded a prince as the supreme ruler of Japan!

"After Yongle, the Japanese Muromachi shogunate's shogun of Zhengyi often interacted with the Ming Dynasty under the banner of the so-called king, and even the Japanese imperial prince rarely came forward."

It turns out that for so many years, Japan has dealt with the Ming Dynasty with some fake kings! Zhu Qiming felt unworthy for Daming, "Why did Japan do this?" ”

"First, Japan has been in turmoil for many years, and the imperial family has declined; After all, it is very difficult to demote the Japanese emperor to king, and it is inconvenient for the Ming Dynasty to interact with the Japanese imperial family, so it can only be treated as if it does not exist. ”

Right when it doesn't exist? Just dealing with some imposter king? Isn't this a cover-up and a thief of the bell? Only then did Zhu Qiming believe that there was a so-called emperor in Japan.

Suddenly, his thinking shifted. He felt that there was something wrong with the letter from the Ministry of Rites! The arguments for the crimes of Japan in the letter are inadequate, and the arguments are extremely inadequate, and do not help to push the Ming into the unquestionable moral high ground, and the whole text is full of staleness, except for the pale accusations, but only the naked threat.

When it comes to writing a lot of essays, those who are full of knowledge seem to be shallow.

As a result, Zhu Qiming had a strong interest in the Japanese side's reply, and he had a bad premonition: I am afraid that the weight of the letter from the Ministry of Rites will be compared with the Japanese side's reply!

"Did that Lianghuai return to the book?"

"Returned." Lu Xiyu was so warm that he couldn't help but stand up and paced a few steps like a little adult. "I remember very clearly, Lianghuai's reply seems to be disrespectful to Da Ming."

"Chenwen: Three kings stand up, five emperors Zen. But China has a lord, how can it be that there is no king? The universe is vast, not the sole power of one master; The universe is wide and flooded, and the nations are divided into defenses. The one who covers the world is the world of the world, not the world of one person. ”

"The vassals live far and weak, the country is small, the city is less than sixty, the territory is less than three thousand, and there is still a heart of contentment, so those who are content are always enough. Now His Majesty is the lord of China, the king of ten thousand times, with thousands of cities and more than a million miles of territory. ”

"The sky kills the machine, and the stars change the night; The ground is killed, and the dragon and snake rise to land; People kill people, and heaven and earth repeat. Yao Shun is virtuous, guests from all over the world; Tang Wu Shiren, tribute from all directions. The ministers heard that His Majesty had a strategy for war, and the small state had a plan to defend against the enemy. The essay includes an article on the morality of Confucius and Mencius, and on the art of war of Sun Wu Taoluo. I also heard that His Majesty had chosen a general and raised all his strength to invade the realm of his subjects. The land of water, the state of mountains and seas, is covered by water, and the soldiers are about to welcome it, how can they kneel down and worship it! ”

"Going along with it may not be its life, and going against it may not be its death. In front of Helan Mountain, talk about Bo opera, what are you afraid of! If the king wins and the minister loses, and the will of the kingdom is full; If the minister wins and loses, it will be a shame for a small state. ”

"Since ancient times, peace is the supremacy, and war is strong. Avoid the devastation of living souls and the hardships of saving Li Shu. Every year he enters the kingdom of God, and he is called a vassal to the weak. Today, the envoy replied to the black hemp and paid homage to Danqi. Minister, honest and fearful, the head of the head of the head. Be careful to hear about it. ”

Zhu Qiming's heart sank. Lianghuai's reply to the book was completed in one go, swaying arbitrarily, and the more powerful it was, it can be said to be reasonable, evidence-based and modest, compared with it, the letter of the Ministry of Rites is obviously inferior!

Thinking that Japan is a strange country, it has been stealing Chinese culture for thousands of years, and it is inseparable from China, Zhu Qiming suddenly became vigilant and warned himself not to take lightly the Japanese boy in Lu Xiyu's mouth.

"Lianghuai first showed strength, then weakness, and finally didn't call the ministers for peace? What kind of sincere fear, what a pause, I knew it was like this, why bother to say so much nonsense! Lu Xiyu said disdainfully.

Zhu Qiming shook his head and said, "That's not nonsense. Lianghuai's reply can be summed up in six words, reasonable, ruthless, and peaceful! Daduan's reasoning is an excuse to block my Daming Xingshi; The next ruthlessness is to weigh the benefits and disadvantages of Daming and retreat in the face of difficulties; The last talk and a few words, it seems to put the only correct choice in front of Da Ming, good article! Besides, Lianghuai is just a prince, and he is a vassal to Taizu, and he is also a vassal to the so-called emperor of Japan, so what does Japan lose? ”

Lu Xiyu looked at Zhu Qiming with a little surprise. Zhu Qiming's words made her have an epiphany, so she had a new interpretation of Lianghuai's reply. She didn't understand that the young prince in front of her, who was unwilling to delve into Confucianism, had a unique insight, how did he do it?

Zhu Qiming's mind focused on the Japanese boy, "Sister, where did the Japanese kid you said come from?" ”

"He claimed to be the third brother of the Japanese Emperor of the Back Garden, Prince Sadasei."

Princes? I see! Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there has never been direct contact with the Japanese imperial family, and no Japanese royal family member has ever set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty, and the previous tributes of the Japanese side have been organized by the shogun, so the sudden arrival of the Japanese royal family must make the temple feel very troublesome, there is no precedent for forced expulsion from the country, and it cannot be forced to perform the courtiers, which is difficult to do, in front of the envoys of all nations, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty is facing a severe test.

The New Year's Day is imminent, and the emperor will have a banquet for the envoys of various countries in the Fengtian Palace, presumably there must be an uninvited guest from Japan, and for the emperor, the New Year's Day will not be good.

"Well, that's the way it is, and I have to come forward if I don't want to." Zhu Qiming sighed lightly, he didn't know the depth of Japanese martial arts, and thought that Lianghuai was very successful in stealing Chinese martial arts, and that Japanese kid might steal Chinese martial arts, so he was a little worried, and immediately ordered Lu Xiyu to go home with her father, and he went to Qingning Palace to say hello, and rushed back to Yuefu to find Lianggang to inquire about the origin of Japanese martial arts.

"Hey, there is no martial arts in Japan! Take the Japanese as an example, its strength lies in team cooperation, with more than ten people as a small team, everyone holds a double sword, and the attack and defense are the same. If they fight alone, they do not have the upper hand. Liang Gang said disapprerovitically.

Zhu Qiming still had doubts in his heart, "Nearly seventy percent of the Japanese are Ming people, how can they see the true martial arts of Japanese samurai?" ”

"Aren't there three more adults from Japan? I fought against the Japanese in my early years, and those people were like that, far better at fighting than the Ming Guard's army, but if the number of Japanese is small, and when you meet a master like me, the threat is not worth mentioning at all! ”

Seeing Liang Gang's relaxed expression and completely disbelieving that there was martial arts in Japan, Zhu Qiming breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart was suddenly full of longing for the Japanese boy.