While they were still planning here, Shagra, the prince of Tianzhu Kingdom, had already come to Daming.

This time, he was appointed by the old king of Tianzhu Shabat to come to inquire about the reality of the Ming Dynasty, so he was also full of confidence and wanted to do something here.

This time, he brought an embassy of nearly 100 people and stayed directly in the Golden Pavilion in Yingtianfu.

The person in charge of the reception was the waiter Daotong, and his responsibility was to arrange for the embassy and his party to eat, drink, and Lazar.

However, he was very depressed in his heart, because the Ministry of Rites did not receive too much special money.

According to normal speaking, the Tianzhu Kingdom delegation should not exceed twenty people, but this time there are almost a hundred people, and the natural consumption will be more than five times.

Dao Tong is also a person who lives a life, so he is naturally a little dissatisfied in his heart, so he came to ask Lu Ning for advice.

"Lord Wang, there are more than eighty more people in those missions, what should we do with them? The Ministry of Rites has not received more money, do you want to say hello to the Ministry of Households, let them give more money, and don't lose the Ming national character. ”

After listening to his words, Lu Ning replied very speechlessly.

"Didn't I tell you a long time ago? If they don't have that much glutinous rice, let them eat swill, which is the same as curry. ”

Dao Tong was completely confused, he was a three-grade waiter of the Ministry of Rites, but he couldn't act so recklessly.

If you really do such a thing and let the court blame it, even if you have ten heads, you won't be able to cut off your head.

Lu Ning was able to speak like this, it was because he was the prince of the country and the king of the county, and he was also the adopted son of His Majesty.

If you do this yourself, then who can support you behind it?

Thinking of this, Dao Tong had no choice but to smile and ask Lu Ning for instructions again.

"Lord, it's a little inappropriate to do this, it's also an envoy who came to the Ming Dynasty to worship, if it's really too lazy, it won't look good for the emperor."

Lu Ning thought about it carefully and felt that what Dao Tong said was not completely unreasonable, so he said.

"You can look at the arrangement by yourself how to do it, but you don't have to give them a good face, these people are the same as Dongying people, they are afraid of power and not virtuous, which is not a good thing."

However, Lu Ning still took out a silver ticket of 1,000 taels and handed it to Daotong, telling him that it would be enough to save a little money.

At this time, Dao Tong was also a little speechless, for an official, this may be regarded as a huge amount of money.

But to receive foreign envoys, a thousand taels of silver is not even enough for a day's expenses, which is also the inevitable need for the Ming Dynasty to save face.

Daotong came to the post house, arched his hand at the Tianzhu prince Shagra, and said.

"His Royal Highness the Prince has come from afar, we should be well entertained, now the post house has prepared a light meal, please go to the dinner with the envoys, in addition, our grandfather is responsible for entertaining you, and also took out a tea salute."

After finishing speaking, he put the 1,000 taels of silver tickets on the table.

At this time, Shagra originally thought that this was a silver ticket of 100,000 taels, but he was still very happy in his heart.

But when he looked closely, it was only a thousand taels, and he instantly became annoyed.

He immediately began to lose his temper at Daotong and said.

"Your Ming Dynasty is known as the state of etiquette, is this how you treat foreign envoys? If Zhu Yuanzhang treats us like this, we will return to China right now. ”

Dao Tong was kind to them, and then went to the palace to see Zhu Yuanzhang and told them about the matter.

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he also felt that he didn't understand why Lu Ning was like this, so he asked people to recruit him into the palace.

When Dao Tong told him about it, Lu Ning smiled and said.

"Father, don't worry about this matter, we don't need to attach so much importance to this Tianzhu country, these people are very servile, if you give him face, he will have a face, and if you don't give him face, he will be a minion."

Zhu Yuanzhang was actually reluctant to offend all these vassal states, but when he heard Lu Ning say this, he didn't understand his intentions, so he said.

"Since you think so, you must have your own ideas, you might as well tell us your ideas, we can also know what you want."

Lu Ning said very indifferently.

"This prince of Tianzhu is looking for trouble, so we might as well plan and let him keep dying, and then find a random reason to conquer Tianzhu, father, do you remember when I talked about the concept of colonies?"

Zhu Yuanzhang naturally will not forget that today's Dongying is the colony of the Ming Dynasty, where the people and minerals, as well as everything that can be used by the Ming Dynasty, can be ingested casually.

And the former emperor of Toei is now just a nominal earl in the Ming Dynasty, and the so-called general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is now just a wolf dog who cares for the house.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately understood that Lu Ning was looking for a reason to fight Tianzhu, even if this prince kept to himself, he would find him awkward, not to mention restless.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little puzzled, and he couldn't help but ask Lu Ning.

"Why do you always want to fight Tianzhu, does this place also have mines like Dongying? Or is there something special about them. ”

Lu Ning smiled indifferently again, and he told Zhu Yuanzhang.

"There is no ore in Tianzhu, but they are not unable to fight, because there is a large population, we can plunder it as slaves, and it can also replace the suffering of the people of my Ming Dynasty, and there is another place where we are not good."

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't interject, he just listened quietly.

"Isn't it fragrant that the climate is pleasant, the land is fertile, and the crops are easy to ripen, and you can harvest three or even four seasons a year?"