At this time, on the other side of Chang'an Avenue.

In a two-storey inn in Jiangdong, the shopkeeper ordered the forced labor to drive dozens of men, threw out the cages and goods, but seized the horses.

The group was dressed in fancy costumes.

Looking at their appearance, they are not like the Han people, they are envoys sent by the Champa State to pay tribute to the Celestial Empire.

The Champa State is located in the central part of Annam, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang Po attached great importance to the establishment of diplomatic relations with the surrounding neighbors, and the specialty of the Champa State is Champa rice, which will pay tribute to the imperial court every year.

But I don't know why the Celestial Empire is this year.

After waiting for two months, no one received the official, and the price of the Beijing inn depended on the location, orientation and layout, and it cost six dollars of silver for a room.

In order to save the face of the city state, he refused to lower his specifications.

The three of them lived in a side room, lived for two months, and did not wait for the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty to receive them, and today they finally spent all the silver taels, and the city was already a small country, and it was not much money.

The envoy at the head was already embarrassed at this time.

He spoke in an official dialect with a strong Yunnan accent and said, "The store forgives me for a few days, I... I sent someone back to get the silver taels, the Champa Kingdom is a subsidiary of the Celestial Empire, and the people of the Champa Kingdom never delay the silver taels of the Celestial Empire. ”

"Alas, let's go, let's go, it's been three days for you, that's what you said last time!"

The embarrassed envoy watched the shopkeeper close the door of the inn.

He is rough with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the laws of the Ming Dynasty are strict, and he does not violate the law in the city of Zhancheng, and in the Ming Dynasty, he may be executed, and after the curfew, the homeless Yifu is not allowed to run around on the streets, and will be arrested by the soldiers and horses of the five cities.

The embarrassed envoy sighed and said, "First pack up the cage and tribute, and go out of the city for the night." ”

The attendants and courtiers of the city and the city were extremely embarrassed, picked up the cages and tributes on the ground, carried each other, and went to the cool gate in the west.

Walking to 100 meters, I was attracted by the aroma of goose paws in Jiangdong Building.

The envoy stood at the door, a little hungry, moved his throat, and watched the gentleman in front of him eat with his mouth full of oil.

Thirty young and strong guards, it was easy to rob property, but in the Celestial Empire, they did not dare.

The envoy was the wise minister of the Champa nation.

After thinking about it, he planned to make friends with the gentry of the capital, borrow a sum of silver taels, and return it when he paid tribute next time, otherwise, I was afraid that he would not even be able to go back to the occupied city.

He stepped forward, "This son? ”

"We are envoys who have come to the Heavenly Dynasty to pay tribute, can we borrow one hundred taels of silver, and the next time we enter Beijing, we will repay it twice, and I will thank you for your kindness on behalf of the king."

Zhu Rong looked up and saw a group of sloppy beggars in front of him.

"Envoy?"

"Yes, we are from the Champa Kingdom."

"Why don't you meet the Son of Heaven?"

"No one has received me, I have been in Beijing for two months, and all the gold and silver on my body have been spent, if His Majesty the Emperor of the Heavenly Dynasty is not seen, I can only return to occupy the city first and report to the monarch."

The envoy spoke earnestly and made a gesture.

During the Yuan Dynasty, it went to Eastern Europe.

Zhu Yuanzhang learned from the experience of the Yuan Dynasty and wanted to restore the concept of diplomatic relations between China and establish a world order dominated by the Ming Dynasty with the concept of equal order and harmony.

Therefore, the concept of diplomatic relations is extremely important.

Zhu Di sent Zheng He to the West, which was also deeply influenced by this concept.

Zhu Rong was stunned for a moment and put down the goose paws.

Champa?

I don't know why my father attaches great importance to tribute, but I know that my father is forbearance of Hu Weiyong, expanding the matter, and making the ministers enter Beijing is a matter under the jurisdiction of Zhongshu Province.

Hu Weiyong was negligent.

"This king doesn't have silver taels, but this king can take you into the palace."

The palace is closed with a curfew.

At this time, in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang put his feet in the wooden barrel, let the palace maid wipe it gently, holding a yellowed Spring and Autumn Festival in his hand, and I don't know how many times I read it.

The maid dried his feet and gently placed them on the cotton shoes.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and King Qi are here!"

Zhu Yuanzhang is quite diligent, no matter what time it is, no matter whose bedroom he is in, as long as he is sent from outside the palace, even if he sleeps, he will definitely get up and deal with it.

Zhu Yuanzhang handed the book to the palace maid, "Let them in." ”

"Father, the envoys of the city country have entered Beijing."

"Why hasn't anyone reported it?"

"Erchen didn't know, when he came back from outside the palace, he saw the envoy being driven to the street by the shopkeeper, unkempt, like a beggar, and stretched out his hand to the Erchen to borrow money to return to the country."

"When did you enter Beijing?"

"I don't know, it was about two months ago."

The imperial court set up the Honglu Temple and placed the envoys, but the envoys were not allowed to meet for two months, and they became beggars on the streets.

Zhu Yan deliberately didn't let them bathe themselves.

The envoy stood quietly in the temple of Mukden, dressed in dirt.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face looked very bad, with a straight face, and his noncommittal momentum was terrifying.

Zhu Yu raised his head and glanced at his father's side face.

The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang is angry is because these officials are in their positions, but they don't do what they should do, so his decrees cannot be conveyed and implemented, and people's livelihood cannot be disposed of.

Lazy government dereliction of duty!

Suddenly, Zhu Yuanzhang's face became even more ugly.

He immediately issued an order and ordered Hu Weiyong to enter the palace tomorrow to participate in the court meeting, completely ignoring that Hu Weiyong was mourning at home.

So, Fengtian Temple saw such a scene.

Zhu Rong stood behind Zhu Biao.

He came to testify.

Hu Weiyong stood in the first place of civil officials, Zhongshu Province has a left minister, three right ministers, in addition to Li Shanchang and Li Wenzhong, there is also Wang Guangyang, they hold the Qiang card, solemnly standing on the right side of the Fengtian Palace.

The ministers did not know what was going on.

Even the king of Qi has gone to court.

"Have you ever heard that there are envoys to Beijing?"

Zhu Yuanzhang only said one sentence, and the civil officials felt a piercing coldness, and no one dared to stand up and answer.

Envoys came to the Celestial Empire to pay tribute.

According to the normal process, the Ministry of Rites reported to the Zhongshu Province, and after the Zhongshu Province settled down, it arranged the date of the audience on a later date.

But Hu Weiyong did not plead guilty.

He bowed his hand and said slowly: "Receiving the envoys of the Fan Dynasty has always been the responsibility of Lord Wang, and the ministers think that he has done it." ”

Li Shanchang and Li Wenzhong glanced at each other, looked at Wang Guangyang in the middle, and the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs also followed their gaze.

Wang Guangyang was a jinshi of the Yuan Dynasty.

One of the founding heroes.

Good at pen and ink, proficient in scriptures, in the late Yuan Dynasty war, Zhu Yuanzhang reused, compared him to Zhang Liang, after the founding of the country, he was promoted to the right minister of Zhongshu Province.

Let him contain Hu Weiyong.

After this Jinshi became the prime minister, he drank heavily all day long, sang and danced at home, and almost ignored affairs.

Wang Guangyang knelt down and threw away the Gram card.

"Minister... The ministers didn't listen, and there were envoys to Beijing. ”

Wang Xiang, you used to always hit the king's palm with a bamboo board, and you were complacent to ask the queen mother for credit.

Don't blame this king for suing you.

Zhu Rong said: "Oh, when the king saw that they were driven away by the shopkeepers, he was about to fall into the streets, and when he asked, he found out that they were the envoys of the city, and they were not allowed to see them in Beijing for two months, so he brought them into the palace." ”

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Author's Note:

I posted a post in the book review section, and interested book lovers can take a look