Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Diplomacy of the Ming Dynasty Is No Small Matter
However, the problem of Confucianism at the time of Zhu Yuanzhang was not serious.
At this time, they are actually very cautious, carefully accumulating strength in the shadow of this tyrant.
There are even those who refuse to cooperate.
Jiangnan Confucianism always never forgot their prosperous era of Hu Yuan, the good era when they could engage in serfdom, and the era when they could do whatever they wanted to their tenants as long as they served the foreign rulers well. Therefore, many of them are not sober, and they still refuse to come out to serve this tyrant, and in addition, it is also to avoid being killed by him on fabricated charges.
If I don't become an official, then you can't catch me peeling the skin, right?
But Zhu Yuanzhang cooperated very well with a system in which sergeants and gentlemen were not used by the king.
To put it simply, if I recruit you, you have to come and be an official for me, if you don't come, I will kill your whole family, but how I toss you after I come, you have to endure it.
I'll beat you with a rod, and you'll have to endure it.
I'm looking for a crime to kill your whole family, but you still have to endure it.
In a word......
I'm very fast, you bear with it.
The golden cup is drunk with you, and the white blade is not forgiven.
This sentence is what he said to Wenchen Ru Taisu.
Therefore, the later literati's evaluation of Zhu Yuanzhang was that he took all the baht from Confucianism and used it like mud and sand.
He actually did it on purpose, he knew the harm of these guys in the people, but if he didn't give them officials, he wouldn't be able to find a reason to die, so he forcibly recruited them to be officials, and then killed them when he had the opportunity, even if he was just in a bad mood, he had to pull them out and beat them half to death first.
For example, the unlucky Ru Taisu, because of the quotations and classics written by the folds, the flowers are full of flowers, and Zhu Yuanzhang is dizzy when he hears it, and he doesn't understand the meaning of more than 10,000 words.
Then he became angry and dragged out of the court staff!
Under his tyranny, the Confucian scholars could only endure and wait.
Good thing they do it best!
So now there is no conflict between them and Yang Feng for the time being, not to mention that Yang Feng is actually not interested in them......
Now Yang Feng is only interested in teasing Zhu Yuanzhang.
Three Mountain Gate.
Accompanied by the joyful laughter of children running, a horse-drawn carriage slowly moved down the stone streets.
The carriage was completely open, with a large seat in the back, completely wrapped in animal skins, presumably a bearskin with a long hair, a railing in front of it, guardrails on the left and right, a large umbrella on top of its head, and a place to put luggage behind the seat, with a camouflage backpack. There are also wooden planks on both sides of the luggage compartment, on the left are written the embassy vehicle, on the right is written diplomatic immunity, and on the back of the seat is a wooden cage, inside which is an iron coupon, and the half-centimeter-thick wrought iron plate is densely carved with small letters, all filled with gold, shining in the sun.
However, there was no driver, so the two horses were driven by Ambassador Yang on the reclining seat, but there was also a small chair on each side of the seat and between the guardrails.
On the small chair on the left sits a maidservant.
"Stop!"
The officers who had been waiting in front of the Sanshan Gate for a long time stopped in front of the horses.
Ambassador Yang stood up proudly.
Like Xerxes rising from his throne.
Xiao Yu silently pulled back something that looked like a deadbolt beside her.
Then the upper part of the parapet immediately fell outward, and at the same time the two planks on top were flipped over, and the two steps led straight down the road.
"Dai Gui, who stayed on the right guard, has seen Ambassador Yang."
The officer arched his hand.
Yang Feng belongs to foreign envoys, but he is not an envoy of a vassal state, so the rank is not easy to determine, Zhu Yuanzhang did not mention this issue, considering that Zhang Xianzong on the side of the Ming Dynasty was designated as the fifth grade, so he automatically regarded him as the fifth grade, like the hundred households of the sixth grade It is okay to salute him first, and he does not bow five times and three bows when he sees the emperor, so everyone is still confused on this issue.
"If you want to go out of the city, why do you stop you?"
Yang Feng said proudly with his chin facing the sky.
"You are not allowed to leave the city, so you should stop at the city gate."
Dai Gui said very simply.
Yang Feng snorted coldly, and then stretched out his hand back, Xiao Yu hurriedly climbed onto the seat, took down the four-pound iron coupon for him, held his hands high above his head, knelt down in the carriage and handed it to him......
"Look what this is? This is the decree of your emperor, look at what is written on it? I have freedom of movement, freedom of speech, do you want me to explain to you what freedom is? And did you see these eight words written on this carriage? Embassy vehicles, diplomatic immunity, do you know what diplomatic immunity means? I don't know if I'm here to tell you, even if I commit a crime, you have no right to arrest me, and in the same way I have no right to stop me from going wherever I want.
Remember, this is the decree of your Emperor Majesty!
Why, you want to resist the decree? ”
Yang Feng exploded in an instant, grabbed the iron coupon pestle with one hand and put it on Dai Gui's face, spitting like a foreigner consul at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Dai Gui wiped his face with a melancholy face.
Then he hurriedly retreated, not knowing whether it was to salute or to avoid the guy's saliva attacks.
"Your Excellency, Your Majesty has decreed that you are not allowed to leave the city without permission, so you are not allowed to leave the city without Your Majesty's decree."
He said indifferently.
Behind him were hundreds of soldiers waiting for him, and there were also countless soldiers above him, so he didn't believe that this guy dared to rush hard.
"Did he say which city he was out of?"
Yang Feng said.
"This?"
Dai Gui was stunned.
"What, nothing more? Your emperor said that without his holy decree, I was not allowed to leave the city without permission, so you tell me whether it was an inner city or an outer city? Isn't it the capital outside? Since he didn't say whether it was the outer city or the inner city, it was the entire capital by default, since it was the entire capital, then of course I could go to the outer city, could you be more powerful than a hundred households, and dare to exclude the outer city from the capital? Hurry up and get out of the way for me, and if you don't dodge again, be careful that I hit you with an iron coupon!
I have immunity, and the most I can do is deport you. ”
Yang Feng said as he re-boarded his carriage and urged the two horses without hesitation.
"In my land of the Ming Dynasty, how dare the barbarians be arrogant?"
There was an angry shout from the city gate behind Dai Gui.
Immediately after that, a horse rushed straight out, and it could be seen that there were a large number of cavalry behind him, and a strong man wearing a red dragon robe riding a horse in the middle.
The soldiers, who had their backs to the city gates, quickly separated.
The man came straight ahead.
Dai Gui simply took a step back and let him pass by, this person swept past Yang Feng's two driving horses at the speed of Brother Dao's bag, and in the neighing sound of the two horses standing up in fright, he reached out and grabbed Yang Feng's clothes, trying to drag him off the carriage. Xiao Yu screamed in horror and squatted down with his head under his arm, and then Yang Feng smiled and avoided his hand, holding the iron coupon with both hands and slamming it on his chest, this guy snorted and flew backwards, and with the war horse galloping under his crotch, he fell directly on the long street.
But his legs were still hanging from the stirrups, so he continued to be dragged forward.
At the same time, a large number of cavalry appeared behind Yang Feng, led by Zhang Fu, who saw this scene, he casually took off the small hammer next to the saddle, and smashed it at the war horse.
The hammer is in the middle of the horse's head.
The horse swooped forward in a wild gallop......
"You like to kill horses so much? The last time we met, you hacked a horse to death, and today you stoned another horse to death, people are also a life, we have to cherish life, people are born of people, horses are also born of horses, you will make it very sad to it. ”
Yang Feng chattered like a Tang monk possessed.
Zhang Fu didn't bother to pay attention to him, quickly dismounted and looked at the man, and quickly tried to snort, before getting up and walking towards the dragon robe......
"After seeing the king, Tan Qianhu just closed his breath, and he didn't worry about his life."
He saluted.
The dragon robe nodded, and then he looked at Yang Feng with interest.
"Iron Coupons!"
Yang Feng said with a pure face while holding the iron coupon.
"Bold, this is His Royal Highness King Yan!"
Zhang Fu shouted.
"I saw his father like this, do you think I still have to salute him? I'm like this to his father, if you salute him, what do you make his father think, General Zhang, are you trying to harm him? I really don't understand what you're doing! ”
Yang Feng said blankly.
Zhang Fu was so frightened that he quickly shut up.
"Your Excellency is sharp-tongued!"
Zhu Di snorted coldly.
The second generation of this tyrant looked slightly darker than his father, and he was also thicker, like an inflated Zhu Yuanzhang......
Zhu Yuanzhang has not been on the expedition for many years, and now he is in his sixties, which can be regarded as a pampered and excellent treatment for many years, mainly using his brain, and his body size must not be compared with when he was young, but Zhu Di is different, not only in the prime of life, but also has gone to the grassland many times, which can be said to be basically equivalent to a copy of his father at this age, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist full of domineering.
He didn't talk nonsense to Yang Feng anymore, and then walked towards that Tan Qianhu.
A general behind him quickly stepped forward, took out a water bladder and poured water directly on Tan Qianhu's face, and pinched people in a troubled manner, but the latter did not react.
"I think you should lay him flat, tilt his head to the side, and press his chest."
The culprit in the back said.
Zhang Fu and the others turned their heads and glared angrily......
"A bunch of ignorant mortals, let go of that man and let me come!"
Yang Feng said with disdain.
Then he stepped out of the carriage, took the iron coupon and pushed Zhang Fu aside, put the iron coupon on the ground, and in the puzzled eyes of Zhu Di and others, let Tan Qianhu pill his head on the iron coupon, keep leaning back, and then began to press, he looked at Zhang Fu at the same time as the pressing......
"Don't look at it, give him artificial respiration, just hold your breath, and then lie on his mouth and blow it in, you can't leak the wind!"
"Huh?"
Zhang Fu was instantly stupid.