The reason why Li Chenggui took such great pains to not only beg Zhu Yuanzhang to recognize the status of the king, but also respectfully asked him to set a new name for his kingdom was also quite far-sighted.

Zhu Quan smiled secretly in his heart: Li Chenggui's move is also painstaking, if the old man Zhu personally gave the new country name, then if the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the future wants to raise troops against this small country like the Yuan Dynasty on a whim, I am afraid that it will be difficult to justify the name and become famous. Imagine if the names of my country were given by the founding emperor of you, as the suzerain, would you still be embarrassed to raise an army to crusade against my vassal country? From this point of view, these Koreans are quite familiar with our Central Plains culture and the tone that scholars pay attention to. Remembering that this small country has always been influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, it is not comparable to the aggressive nomadic tribes. For the Ming Dynasty to strengthen its control over Liaodong and move the capital to Beiping in the future, a vassal state adjacent to Liaodong and obedient and subservient was really beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, so he stepped out of the ranks, hoping to promote this matter.

Without waiting for Zhu Quan to speak and admonish, Zhu Yuanzhang muttered: "North Korea, North Korea." The country of the rising sun is distinct, and I have been influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, and its meaning is very sincere, and I will give you the name of the small state of Korea. Speaking of this, Li Chengyuan, who slowly stood up and bowed his fingers to the ground to thank him, smiled: "In order to show that my Ming Dynasty is really a state of etiquette, not comparable to the barbarians who are reckless and militaristic, North Korea is a vassal state that my Ming Dynasty will never conquer from today." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's gift of the country was still expected by Li Chengyuan, but the four words "never levy" were promised by the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty in public, and the weight can be described as heavy as Mount Tai. Li Chengyuan's heart was shocked when he heard this, and he hurriedly kowtowed and said: "Li Chengyuan, the junior minister of North Korea, is in this right to represent the lord of the country, and the subjects bow up and down to thank His Majesty Emperor Hongwu. "Recalling the Yuan Dynasty's expropriation of their own country in the past, the beautiful name of harmony, but let a few Tartar women control and manipulate their own country, today's Ming Dynasty Hongwu Emperor His Majesty's mind is as he himself said, the state of Chinese etiquette, not comparable to the barbarians. I feel and admire it in my heart, and these words of gratitude come from the bottom of my heart.

When a group of civil officials saw Li Chengyuan for the first time, they thought of the murder of the Ming envoy, all of them were furious, and they could be said to be extremely sarcastic and ridiculous under the quotation scriptures, and when they saw this Li Chengyuan from talking and behaving to dressing up as a Confucian scribe, they couldn't help but feel quite cognitive, and the hostility gradually went away and then heard Zhu Yuanzhang say that the Ming Dynasty was a state of etiquette, and it was not comparable to the barbarians of Fanbang, so they obediently shut their mouths one by one, so as not to leave the envoy of this small Korean state who had already surrendered to the impression of bullying and bullying. One by one, they bowed to the ground and said: "My emperor is sage." ”

Zhu Quan followed a group of civil and military officials to the ground, and the taste in his heart was indescribable, and he secretly wondered: How many Chinese know the origin of the name of North Korea hundreds of years later? Perhaps under the influence of countless Wei Xiaobao-style minions, they have completely forgotten the history of their ancestors.

Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "Pass it to the palace of the Marquis of Yi." ”

With the slightly sharp voice of Xue Jing, the head of the imperial study, a moment later, a middle-aged man in Chinese clothes who was about forty years old and a slightly pale and cramped face who had been waiting outside the Fengtian Hall walked into the hall and bowed his head and said, "Weichen Mingsheng sees my emperor." ”

You must know that at this time, the ** part of the Ming Dynasty was able to be crowned by the marquis is a battle-hardened general, Zhu Quan saw that this Mingsheng was a little panicked, not like the people who fought on the battlefield in the past, and he couldn't help but wonder in his heart.

It turned out that the father of Ming Sheng was Ming Yuzhen at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and at the age of twenty-two, he joined the Tianwan Red Turban Army led by Xu Shouhui and served as the marshal of the unified army. Later, he was ordered to lead the troops to the west, enter Shu from Wuxia, and occupy Chongqing. Then, Ming Yuzhen sent troops to crusade in all directions, completely defeated the officials and troops of the Yuan Dynasty in Sichuan, and basically pacified Sichuan and Shu. In 1360, Chen Youliang killed Xu Shouhui and established himself as the emperor, Ming Yuzhen was not convinced, and did not communicate with him, and in July of the following year, Ming Yuzhen established himself as the king of Longshu in Chongqing. In 1362, he was called the emperor, built the capital of Chongqing, the country was called Daxia, the year was called Tiantong, imitated the Zhou system, set up Liuqing, set up his wife Peng as the queen, Liming was promoted to the prince, and set up the Taimiao.

In 1366, Ming Yuzhen died of illness, and his son Mingsheng succeeded to the throne.

In the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang sent an envoy to persuade him to surrender, but Mingsheng refused. In the spring of the fourth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Tang He, Liao Yongzhong, Fu Youde and others to lead troops to conquer Shu, and the Xia army was defeated. In June, the Ming army arrived in Chongqing, Ming rose and surrendered, and Xia died. Zhu Yuanzhang thought that Mingsheng led the troops to surrender, so he immediately issued a decree to canonize him as the Marquis of Guiyi.

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed at Mingsheng and smiled at Li Chengyuan and said: "I am determined to let Mingsheng's family move to North Korea, and Wanger and others will treat them well." ”

Li Chengyuan didn't know where the Guiyi Marquis of the Ming Dynasty came from, although he was confused, he solemnly promised to come down.

It turned out that although Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, knew that Mingsheng had no ambition after returning to Shun, he remembered that he had been the emperor of Xia after all, and there was no shortage of officials in Shuzhong in the Ming Dynasty Ming Yuzhen's old department, so he simply took a salary from the bottom of the kettle and sent Mingsheng's family to North Korea, away from Shuzhong, which was also painstaking.

From Zhu Yuanzhang to Zhu Quan, as well as all the envoys of North Korea, Li Chengyuan, no one could have imagined how much impact Zhu Yuanzhang's promise to North Korea would have on future generations. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese hero Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Korea with more than 100,000 troops, and the descendants of the Korean king Li Chenggui sent an envoy to Beijing to ask the Ming Dynasty to send troops to help regain the lost territory as a vassal state. This expedition of the Ming Dynasty army prevented the destruction of Korea by Japan and had a profound impact on the history of Asia. And Mingsheng and his family descendants were able to live on the Korean Peninsula for generations because of Emperor Hongwu's kind words. Today, more than 20,000 of his descendants live in North Korea and more than 40,000 in South Korea.

Just because Mahamunai was the leader of a nomadic tribe, not comparable to envoys who knew Chinese such as Li Chengyuan, the officials of the Ministry of Rites also orally said that the envoy of Mahamu, the leader of Warat, came to the Ming Dynasty, intending to submit to the Ming court and seek the title of Khan. However, the translator was an official of the Honglu Temple under the Ministry of Rites, and Zhu Quan's old acquaintance was a thorn. It turns out that at this time, in the eyes of the world's readers, the Four Books and the Five Classics, even if there are some truths in books other than Confucian classics, are still not elegant, let alone Fanbang language and writing, and no one cares about it. In desperation, the servants of the Ministry had no choice but to make Zhu Yuanzhang and let Nai Thorn Wusuo act as an interpreter.

The figure in the civil official queue on the left swayed, and a person stepped out. It was Qi Tai, the squire of the military department, who only heard him say in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the title of Khan is not owned by my Ming Dynasty." Ma Hamu came to Yingtian in person, which shows that his heart is very sincere, and Weichen feels that it is appropriate for His Majesty to send a decree to give grace and crown the prince. ”

Zhuo Jing and several others in the matter agreed with what Qi Tai saw, and they were busy seconding it.

Zhu Quan remembered that Jing Kun's opinion on this matter in the past was extremely reasonable, and he was waiting to agree with it. But seeing a middle-aged man wearing imperial history in the queue of civil officials on the opposite side couldn't wait to speak out against it, followed by two imperial histories, a speech official was not to be left behind, and they came out of the queue and began to complain with emotion, today's Wara is just a tribe in the forest Mongolia in the past, more than 100 years ago, their ancestors followed Kublai Khan's Mongol army south to invade the Southern Song Dynasty, and committed unspeakable crimes against the common people of the Song Dynasty.

Except for the older and calmer officials such as the Liubu Shangshu Shilang, the rest of the civil officials shook their heads like plucking drums and fiercely opposed the canonization of Mahamu. In their eyes, this wrinkled old Tartar is naturally far inferior to the North Korean Lee Sung-won, who dresses up as a scribe and talks very decently. If you surrender, you will surrender, and if you are vassal, what kind of khan will you be crowned, and what kind of king will you be crowned? It really doesn't make sense, it's like child's play.

Zhu Quan heard that the words of the two imperial histories were very intense, and the spearhead had already pointed at Qi Tai and Zhuo Jing and others who held the tone of the king. These mouthful-mouthed officials and imperial historians, a long speech is enough to speak for half an hour without stopping, making the listener's scalp numb, which is terrible.

Although Mahamu could not understand what these Ming officials were saying at all, he could clearly feel the hostility in their angry eyes and their words and deeds. Although he is alone, after all, he is also a tribal leader who has gone through battles and grew up on the grassland, and his courage and bearing are not comparable to Li Chengyuan, and in the face of a group of Ming Dynasty officials, he does not show a trace of fear, but it stimulates the ruthlessness that has come from childhood.

Not far behind Lan Yu, Jiang Xian, the commander of the Jinyi Guard wearing the official uniform of the Flying Fish, looked at Ma Hamu quietly, not knowing what he was thinking. In the past, when he took Naijiwu to Liaodong to persuade Nahachu to surrender, he once secretly ambushed Shen Peng's caravan, intending to assassinate Alutai and instigate the three clans to fight, so he naturally recognized the old Tartar in front of him as the leader of the Oirat tribe and the father of Tuhuan. Since a few months ago, a group of civil officials pointed the finger at Jinyiwei's abuse of torture, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Jinyiwei to burn the torture equipment in the edict, he has not said a word for a long time during the court discussion, which often does not attract too much attention. He naturally knew in his heart that he and all the brocade guards must temporarily avoid the edge, like a poisonous snake lurking under the ice and snow, like a zombie, quietly waiting for the next hunting opportunity.

Zhu Quan saw that Ma Hamu was calm and unhurried, and secretly thought to himself: We can hate the cruelty of these Tartars, but we can't despise these cruel Tartars. He knew too well in his heart that this tribe named Wara was later quite powerful in the grassland, even so powerful that he defeated hundreds of thousands of Ming Dynasty troops in the Tumubao Rebellion, captured Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, and marched under the city of Beijing. When I thought of this, I couldn't help but feel evil in my heart, hatred surged from my heart, and I secretly hated and hated, if I came to get rid of Huan, maybe I should find a way to kill him and never suffer in the future.

Zhu Yuanzhang received Zhu Quan's fold and knew that the leader of Warat, Mahamu, had come to Yingtian to see him and wanted to be canonized, and these civil officials had already expected such a fierce opposition to the king, and waved their hands to stop the chatter of several civil officials, and said in a deep voice with a solemn face: "Mahamu, the leader of Warat, came to Yingtian in person, and was willing to belong to my Daming, which shows that his intention is very sincere, and I am very relieved." Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, who was standing on the side, a smile flashed in his eyes, and he resolutely continued: "I have no choice but to canonize the title of Khan, just as the so-called local customs, I am determined to canonize Mahamu, the leader of Walla, as the king of Shunning." ”

After listening to the thorn and no interpreter, Ma Hamu's heart was as difficult to control as if he was overturning the river and the sea, his hands involuntarily clenched into fists, his nails were deep in the flesh, and after hesitating for a moment, he still bowed to the ground, and thanked His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Even though his heart was as painful as a knife, he could only endure himself, because even if he could not be afraid of Gui Lichi or Arutai. The Oirat tribe can be fearless of any tribe on any steppe, but now Arutai has led the Asut tribe to Shun Tatar, the population is far superior to the current Warat, some weak tribes at both ends of the steppe saw this situation, and did not hesitate to defect to the Tatars, so today's Oirat people must endure humiliation, whether it is their own Khan of Warat, or those hateful Han people who are extremely contemptuous of the King of Shunning, it is no exception. We must try to get as much pig iron as possible from the Ming Dynasty to make weapons, use the Ming Dynasty cattle, sheep and horses to trade silk, cloth, tea, to win over the more powerful tribes, and use the ruthless scimitars and iron hooves of the Oirats to conquer the weaker tribes, so that Warat rises on the grassland.

The title of Zhu Quan of the domain is King Ning, this old Tartar who is willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, worship the ground, and have gray hair was canonized as the King of Shunning by His Majesty the Emperor.

Zhu Quan looked at the Liangguo Gong Lan Yu who was squinting at Mahamu not far away, and was obviously not very happy about this matter, and sighed slightly and then secretly thought to himself: With Lan Yu, Zhu Laosi and me, in the eyes of people in the military, the best way to take revenge is naturally to use a three-foot long sword, and in the eyes of these nerds who quote scriptures, perhaps Chinese characters are far better than swords.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and signaled Xue Jing, the head of the imperial study, to present pen and ink, and personally wrote on the yellow silk to give it to North Korea, and the national letter of Warat was sealed with a jade seal.

Zhu Quan saw that Ma Hamu at this time took the letter of state casually and kowtowed to thank him, and he sighed secretly and was even more vigilant, and said in his heart: These nomadic tribes on the grassland are as persevering as weeds, not only can they endure the harsh environment like wind and frost and sword, and the cruel tribal fighting, but they can also withstand such a shameful humiliation, which is really not to be underestimated.