Zhu Gaoxu asked: "How much do you know about the affairs of the East Country?"

Song Li apparently did his homework, and during his tenure Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was very keen to trade with the Ming Dynasty. Since 1374, envoys have been sent to the Ming Dynasty several times.

In 1374 and 1380, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty in the name of "Tomoto Seiyi Shogun Minamoto Yoshimitsu" and demanded trade with the Ming Dynasty. However, the Ming Dynasty rejected the request of the Muromachi shogunate, on the grounds that the Ming Dynasty believed that the "Dongben King Huailiang" (or 作良huai) of the "Daijue line" was the orthodox monarch of the Tomoto lineage, and the "Zhimei line" was a rebellious minister.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is an officer of the "Ming line", and he should not have any friendship with him. Therefore, during the reign of Ming Taizu Lao Zhu, the Ming Dynasty rejected trade with the Muromachi shogunate.

In 1401, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu sent Hakata's merchant Fatrich and monk Zua to the Ming Dynasty in the name of "Japan's National Quasi-Three Gogen Morality". At that time, Prince Huailiang's power declined, and Emperor Jianwen agreed to canonize Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as the "King of Tomoto", and asked Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to ban the Japanese Kou, but when the envoy returned to Tomoto, the Ming Dynasty had a change of Jingnan in which Zhu Di, the king of Yan, seized the throne.

In this way, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu King Higashimoto disappeared after a few days, and he must have been quite depressed at the time.

After Zhu Di seized the throne, he sent envoys to the four directions, and in the first year of Yongle (1403), envoys from Goryeo, Dongben, and Siam went to China to pay tribute, establishing a relationship between the clan and the canonization.

In 1404, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu sent another envoy to Ming to congratulate him on the establishment of the crown prince. At that time, the Japanese in the Tsushima and Iki areas harassed the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Di asked Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to arrest him. Yiman sent troops to annihilate the Japanese and offered 20 Japanese leaders.

Because Ashikaga Yoshimitsu frequently paid tribute, his attitude was very good, and at the same time he was rewarded by the Ming Dynasty and formally established diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty issued a conquest letter to Dongben, and Dongben carried out tributary trade with the Ming Dynasty in the name of a subject country.

The Ming Dynasty gave Ashikaga Yoshimitsu a gold seal of "King Tomoto", and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu replied to himself as "King Tomoto, Minister Source Yoshimitsu", and Tomoto officially recognized himself as a vassal state of China.

Therefore, when Zhu Di was in power, he had just canonized Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as the king of Higashimoto last year.

As a result, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu didn't be a year this time, and hung up directly, and then his son Ashikaga Yoshinori succeeded to the throne, and this time he specially reported his father's funeral to the Ming Dynasty.

In the original history, Zhu Di sent Zhou Quan to mourn and canonized Yizhi as the "King of Dongben".

After listening, Zhu Gaoxu felt that this Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had a very good attitude towards the Ming Dynasty, and took the initiative to pay tribute and take the initiative to be a minister, but unfortunately he was not clear about the latter period of history, and he didn't know that after Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's son Ashikaga Yoshinori came to power, he completely changed.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "What is the opinion of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple?" ”

Song Lidao sent an envoy to mourn and canonized Yizhi as the "King of Dongben".

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while: "Yes." ”

Song Li immediately handed over a fold.

This is the tribute just handed over by the envoy of the Eastern Kingdom, as well as the return gift prepared by the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple.

Song Li knew that Zhu Gaoxu was stingy and didn't dare to send it to the General Administration, because after it was sent to the General Administration, Huang Huai's group of cabinets would approve it first, so he brought it directly to the scene.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the gifts of the original envoy of Xia Dong, and then looked at the list of Daming's return gifts, and suddenly his face was not good-looking: "I took a look at it at the beginning, my Daming returned the gift with blood?" ”

“。。” Song Li.

Song Lisheng blushed and said: "Your Majesty, you can't say that, I am the suzerain, and my father rewards his son, don't be stingy, otherwise I will be looked down upon by the outside." ”

"Moreover, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was very deferential to me during his lifetime, and now that he has passed away, I should show a little affection."

Zhu Gaoxu said lightly: "It is precisely because I am so valuable every time I return the gift of the Ming Dynasty, so the foreign ministers frequently send envoys, do you really think that others admire the Ming Dynasty?" ”

People think you're stupid and have a lot of money.

Zhu Gaoxu handed the folding slip back to Song Li with a straight face: "According to half of the cost price of the tribute gifts from the East country, the Honglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites will redraw a gift list." ”

Song Li glared at the emperor, this is too picky?

"Your Majesty, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has just passed away, and my dynasty is like this, for fear of causing Ashikaga Yoshinori to be dissatisfied and affecting the diplomatic relations between the two countries."

"So what? My sailors and artillery, are they vegetarians? Zhu Gaoxu said loudly, Lao Tzu has no time to teach Dongben a lesson now, and he will talk about it when Nanyang is done.

"You also heard it a few days ago, and now there are still Japanese Kou, I just don't have time to settle accounts with Dongguo for the time being."

Song Li didn't dare to say anything now, so he could only say: "The minister's will." ”

Then Song Li said that Tulubo is more than 1,000 miles away from Hami and 2,600 miles away from Jiayuguan. The monk Qinglai of his country led his disciple Faquan and others to pay tribute.

Qinglai and Faquan also just arrived in Daming, and they couldn't help but be stunned when they heard that Daming had changed emperors again.

"Monk?" Zhu Gaoxu said in a deep voice: "Are they from the Buddha Gate, or are they from the Tulu and Tibetan countries?" ”

Song Lidao seems to have come to teach the Buddha the scriptures.

In the original history, Zhu Di was the guide to the customs of the Tulu people, and awarded the Qing Dynasty as an ordinary national teacher who was full of wisdom and wisdom, and seven of his disciples were the officials of the Tulu Tibetan monks, and the rewards were very rich.

Because of the four words of reward, since then, there has been an endless stream of disciples who have come to pay tribute, paying tribute to famous horses, Haiqing and other things in exchange for the wealth of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't know how Zhu Di rewarded him, he must have been a dime.

"Even if it is to teach the Buddha, find a master in Beijing, receive good students, practice Buddhism together, eat and drink, let's be clear, don't let others say that we are stingy, but." Zhu Gaoxu's tone changed: "Remember to use vegetarian food, and the average person per day cannot exceed 50 Wen." ”

“。。” Song Li.

"Your Majesty, not summoned?" Song Li asked stubbornly.

"I am the Ninety-Five Supreme, so do you have time to meet these people? The monk came, let the monk receive it. Zhu Gaoxu said impatiently.

Song Li couldn't help it, so he said again: "The envoy of Goryeo also sent a beauty." ”

Why did they all come together so coincidentally?

Later, Zhu Gaoxu learned that everyone was used to coming during the New Year, because the Great Tomorrow Dynasty had rich rewards during the New Year.

"Beauty?" Zhu Gaoxu finally had a smile on his face.

It turned out that the king of Goryeo, Yi Sung-gye, was also dead.

Lee Sung Gui died a month later than Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

Li Chenggui was the founding king of Goryeo, and he and the Ming Dynasty also recognized the relationship between the clan and the vassal early.

When the country was founded, he took two names and reported them to the Ming Dynasty, one was called Chaoyuyang and the other was Hening, and asked Zhu Yuanzhang to choose.

Lao Zhu chose the previous one.

Therefore, the name of the country of Goryeo is still chosen by Lao Zhu.

However, the relationship between Lao Zhu and Li Chenggui only lasted for a while, and later the two countries became bad because of Zheng Daochuan's affairs.

Lao Zhu was going to send troops to conquer Goryeo, but he died before he could send troops.

After Zhu Di took the throne, the relationship between the two countries eased a lot.

This will be very interesting, Li Chenggui's eldest son is Li Fangguo, and the succession is also given to Li Fangguo.

But his most capable son is Li Fangyuan, the fifth son known as Taejong of Goryeo.

In the second year of Jianwen, when the Ming Dynasty was still in the battle of Jingnan, Li Fangyuan launched the second prince rebellion to eradicate the power of his brother Li Fanggan, Li Fangguo had no choice, so he set up Li Fangyuan as the son, and in November 1400 of the second year of Jianwen, he was located in Li Fangyuan, and he became the king (that is, the king of Taishang).

Li Fangyuan relied on force to seize the throne and snatched the throne from his eldest brother.

After Li Fangyuan ascended the throne, he immediately sent Li Zhan, the minister of the three armed forces, to Nanjing, and heard the Ming court, and Zhu Yunwen approved Li Fangyuan's ascension to the throne.

In October of the fourth year of Jianwen (1402), Li Fangyuan appointed Helun and Li Zhan as He Deng's envoys to congratulate Ming Chengzu on his ascension to the throne. At the same time, they applied to the Ministry of Rites for the replacement of the knight's seal, and Ming Chengzu praised it for "knowing the time and changing", so he sent the commander Gao De and Zuo Tongzheng Zhao Juren to come to Goryeo to canonize.

On April 8, the first year of Yongle (1403), Li Fangyuan was again canonized as the king of Goryeo by the Ming Dynasty.

In the first month of the first year of Yongle (1403), Li Fangyuan sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute. In April of the same year, Li Guiling sent his courtier Li Guiling again to pay tribute, and Li Fangyuan's father Li Chenggui was ill and needed borneol, Shenxiang, Suhe, sesame oil and other things, and asked for a mutual market with the Ming Dynasty. Ming Chengzu rewarded Li Fangyuan for being familiar with Chinese etiquette, and gave him gold seals, edicts, crown clothes, nine chapters, guiyu, peiyu and other things.

So after Li Fangyuan's father died, Li Fangyuan sent an envoy to Daming, one to report the funeral, and the other to send eight beauties to Chengzu Zhu Di, one of which was Li Fangyuan's seventh daughter, Zhenhui Weng Lord.

However, after they arrived in the Ming Dynasty, they found that the Ming Emperor had changed again.

The envoy was also very smart, and immediately changed his words, and contributed to the new emperor.

Zhu Gaochu seized the throne with two sons, and Li Fangyuan seized the throne with five sons, the two had similar experiences, and the Goryeo envoy felt that Zhu Gaochu would definitely empathize and understand the mind of the king of Goryeo.

Song Li said that they are still in the same hall, waiting for His Majesty to summon them.

Zhu Gaoxu asked quietly: "How old is Lord Zhenhui?" ”

Song Li said he was eleven years old.

"What?" Zhu Gaoxu blurted out: "So small? ”

Song Li smiled bitterly, Goryeo originally wanted to send the princess, but the princesses were either too big or too small, so Lord Zhenhui Weng was just right.

He also said that in Goryeo, they all got married at the age of eleven or twelve.

"It's too small, go back." Zhu Gaoxu said with a straight face.

“。。 How do I get back? Song Li's bitter face: "What is the reason for the minister?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu's eyes rolled: "You just say that I want a princess, but I can't do it." Then he looked at Song Li.

Song Li thought to himself, I understand, the emperor likes the old, and it is really different.

Before Song Li left, Zhu Gaoxu asked again: "Isn't the Honglu Temple and your Ministry of Rites in charge of the same thing?" ”

Song Li's response was pretty much the same.

Historically, by the time of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Taichang Temple, Honglu Temple, and Guanglu Temple were all merged into the Ministry of Rites, because they did have similar functions.

"You go back and discuss with Jianyi, merge Taichang Temple, Honglu Temple, and Guanglu Temple into the Ministry of Rites, and the relevant officials will arrange them as appropriate." Zhu Gaoxu said: "Change to three divisions." ”

Originally, there were four divisions under the Ministry of Rites, but now the meaning of Zhu Gaoxu has been changed to Taichang Division, Honglu Division, and Guanglu Division.

After Song Li left the imperial city, he came to the Huitong Hall.

Nanjing Huitong Hall is the place where the Ming Dynasty entertains foreign guests, but at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was first under the management of the Ministry of War, because he also had the role of transmitting official documents and intelligence, so the site of the Huitong Hall was under the management of the Ministry of War, but after living in the foreign guests, it was received by the Ministry of Rites, which shows that the early Ming Dynasty was unclear and chaotic.

Historically, it was not until the Zhengde period that it was ordered to rectify, and it was officially assigned to the Ministry of Rites, and the main officials received the title of Shaoqing of Honglu Temple.

(End of chapter)