The Chinese Dynasty has prospered and declined, but no matter when, they are proud and lofty in their bones, and their attitude towards the feudal states has always been condescending, a kind of scrutiny and overlook!

For example, the current Ming Dynasty is extremely strong, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty also likes foreign tribute, as long as the Ming Dynasty is not regarded as a wronged leader, then the Ming Dynasty would rather pay a far greater price than the foreign state to return the gift.

Li He knows that this is vanity, but the Ming Dynasty has the strength of vanity, and what about North Korea?

For the Ming Dynasty, North Korea is just a small state in a corner of the country, and even the king has to be canonized by the Ming Emperor.

Of course, Zhu Di's brutal assault on 3,000 palace maids is fake, but North Korean officials are willing to believe it, and believe it for the sake of believing.

The reason why it is recorded in the official history is actually to give an explanation to future generations, telling future generations why North Korea is willing to be a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, this is because the Ming Dynasty is brutal and unkind, if North Korea does not give in, then the Ming Dynasty will raise troops to fight, North Korea is weak, how can it be the opponent of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the DPRK will surely be miserable, and the people will not be able to make a living!

But this kind of thing, this kind of thinking, where does North Korea dare to let the Ming know, after all, this is just self-comfort, if the Ming knows that his vassal state is so disrespectful, send a large army to conquer it, North Korea will destroy the country only in the day!

The Ming Dynasty paid limited attention to a small state like North Korea, but North Korea kept an eye on the movements of the Ming Dynasty.

The general perception of the Joseon royal family for the Ming Dynasty is that the Ming Dynasty is no different from the previous dynasty born in the land of China, arrogant and still going downhill, and it is estimated that it will fall into the fate of the reincarnation of the dynasty in less than two hundred years.

However, it has changed, after Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, the entire Ming Dynasty suddenly changed, changed beyond recognition, and changed so that North Korea could not understand it.

For the Chinese Dynasty, they don't need to learn from foreign countries, because they are the Heavenly Empire, and their own culture may not be able to learn thoroughly even if they spend their entire lives, but for a small country like North Korea, the Chinese civilization has too many things worth learning from them, and they need to absorb the Chinese civilization from all aspects as their own nutrients and promote the process of their own civilization.

Therefore, North Korea knows that Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty likes craftsmen and likes to make things, vigorously develops military firearms, and relies on strong firearms to beat the Tatars into wild dogs, and now there is no place for wild dogs in the grasslands......

Knowing that Emperor Jiajing circled the clan, changed the tax administration, promoted miscellaneous studies, and practiced steel, and now he has also made a terrifying iron car that can travel thousands of miles a day and carry tens of millions of catties!

If the Ming Dynasty before Emperor Jiajing was a person who began to march to the twilight in middle age, then Emperor Jiajing rejuvenated the Ming Dynasty in three years, with the energy of a young man and the vitality of a newborn!

North Korea is really respectful to Daming, but it is still a little disapproving of the Ming Dynasty's government, because North Korea feels that the emperor of Daming has lost his domineering since the time of Renzong, they have been suppressed by civilian officials, and the imperial power has been eroded step by step, and even the emperor's will can be ignored by foreign dynasties.

What is an emperor? is the supreme controller of the authority in the world, his every move should represent the will of the Ming Dynasty, and his words should be the constitution of heaven for officials, but the Ming Dynasty is not the case at all.

Sorrow, the sorrow of the emperor......

However, Emperor Jiajing changed all this, he grasped the finance with one hand, controlled the military power with one hand, and pressed down with both hands, and the original invincible Ming civil officials were completely subdued, this is the king!

A true king!

Li He knew that don't look at the current Emperor Jiajing using joking words to talk about the Korean Black Zhu Di, but in fact, any eloquent king cannot be benevolent, they can smile with you one moment, and the next moment they can hand you a knife when they turn their faces!

So Li He didn't dare to admit it, otherwise if Emperor Jiajing really turned his face, he would be a sinner in North Korea!

"It's okay not to mention it." Zhu Houwei seems to have really taken this as a joke.

The emperor has no intention of pursuing it, and the ministers will not say anything, but this matter is written down by the ministers, and they will definitely get to the bottom of it afterwards, after all, it involves Emperor Yongle.

As for whether Li He will destroy this historical material after returning to China, the ministers have no bottom in their hearts, but Zhu Houwei thinks that he will not, because he understands the virtues of the North Koreans, they will definitely solve the problem on the surface, but they will definitely leave a copy to pass on to future generations!

"Read it."

Jiang Mian, an auxiliary minister of the cabinet and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, came out and handed a letter to the eunuch who read it.

Tribute is like this, the DPRK will hand over the list of tributes to the Ministry of Rites, and then read it out in court, the more expensive the tribute means that the more respectful the vassal state, then in order to declare the etiquette of the Celestial Empire, the Ming Dynasty will give several times the value of the tribute as a return gift, although it is a loss-making transaction, but it is happy......

"The list of tributes to the Joseon State is as follows......" The eunuch opened his throat and read in a low voice: "100 ginseng plants, gold ornaments, silver ornaments, jade ornaments...... Two daughters of nobles......"

The tribute is still old-fashioned, and the only things that make Zhu Houwei slightly interested are ginseng and beauties......

Ginseng is not worth much in a normal year, but as long as it is a hundred years, it is basically hard to find, if it is a thousand years, it is basically a treasure, a treasure that can save lives at a critical time.

North Korea is rich in ginseng, and the people didn't take it seriously, but since it was discovered that the Huaxia Dynasty liked this thing, the price of ginseng has risen directly, and those years old are even hotter.

Naturally, the North Korean tribute ginseng cannot be low, at least it must start in a hundred years, otherwise it will be despising the Ming Dynasty!

As for the beauty, it's not that Zhu Houwei is lustful, if he is really so lustful, his harem will not only have a few concubines.

He was also interested because one of the things that Korea said in later generations involved Yongle.

They shamelessly said that Emperor Yongle had Korean blood and was half Korean......

The reason why I say this is nothing more than that I feel that Emperor Taizu accepted a few Korean concubines, and Zhu Di was born to a Korean concubine.

This is typical nonsense, "Taizong Records" records that Zhu Di was born to Queen Ma, but later generations have proved that this is Zhu Di pasting gold on his face, and his biological mother can be determined to be Concubine Shuo, and Concubine Shuo's origin is clear, she is a typical Han girl!

North Korea's tribute beauties, or the daughters of nobles, are naturally good-looking, and the purpose is also very simple, to Emperor Jiajing as a concubine, if you can be favored and give birth to a prince, then there will be at least a prince close to North Korea in the Ming Dynasty, for North Korea, there are naturally advantages and disadvantages......

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