Zhu Hou walked out of the door of the academy, and when he stepped into the carriage, he suddenly saw that there were more than 20 or nearly 30 men dressed as Tatars among the crowd on the street.

They flocked to the market in groups, making some people feel a little disgusted with them.

Zhu Houzhao felt strange, in his concept, the border troubles during the Hongzhi period were serious, what was the situation?

So sitting in the carriage also kept thinking.

When he arrived at the East Palace, he called Liu Jin over and asked, "What's the matter with those Tatars on the street?"

"Your Highness saw it too? The slaves and maids, who thought they were supposed to pay tribute, had arrived in the capital."

"Tribute?"

Zhu Houzhao is a person with a bit of shame,

Those who were bullied at the border gate didn't dare to go out, and they paid tribute?

If this was Zhu Di's time, the tribute was called tribute, what kind of tribute is it now?

In a flash of his mind, he roughly guessed that this was not the tributary trade of altruism and self-harm?

"Which gentleman in the Zhan Mansion is there? Call him here."

Zhu Houzhao still doesn't know as much about many things in this era as he knows about them as well as people in this era, so he will study what he encounters first, and what is recorded in the history books is not necessarily the facts at that time.

In modern times, this is called holding a special meeting to study and find someone to make a report.

Today happens to be right to the right Wang Hua here.

Seeing him, Zhu Houzhao thought of his son, "Mr. Wang, has your son written to you?" What about others?"

"Your Highness Xie cares." Wang Hua bowed his hand, "There was a letter from the dog in May, saying that he was learning the method of battle formation with General Wang Yue, and that the northwest was ...... The border army is abolished ......"

"Oh." Zhu Houzhao's face changed, and he was not so happy immediately, but he was not angry, but this was not a happy event after all, "I was just about to ask you. Why are there so many Tatars in this capital all of a sudden?"

"Tatars?" Wang Hua didn't have time to think about it before he reacted, "It should be the tributary envoy sent by the little prince who has arrived."

"Tell me."

"Yes." Since he knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wanted to understand, Wang Hua simply started from the source.

Speaking of which, the Ming Dynasty and its evil neighbor to the north, Tatar, have always been in a rather paradoxical state.

On the one hand, the two sides have each other's shots, such as Wang Yue in the sixteenth year of Chenghua attacked the Mongolian camp around Weining Haizi outside the border of Mu Datong, and achieved 'Weininghai, a great victory, three years later in the nineteenth year of Chenghua, Dayan Khan led more than 30,000 people to Koubian, so that the Ming court still has more than a spare quarter every time he thinks about it.

Later, since the first year of Hongzhi, Dayan Khan submitted a letter to the Ming Dynasty and asked for tribute, so once a year, until the fifth year of Hongzhi, and during the period from the fifth year to the ninth year of Hongzhi, in fact, the two sides did not have much contact, and they were peaceful.

In fact, because Dayan Khan was cleaning up the interior, the lord of Zhongxing, known as Mongolia, successively conquered the Oirat, Yismayin, Huosiao and other tribes, and unified Monan.

After tidying up the interior, he sent tribute again,

This happened to happen in the eleventh year of Hongji.

In the spring of that year, he asked 6,000 people to enter the customs to pay tribute, and the two sides bargained with each other for a long time, and finally the imperial court allowed 2,000 people to enter the customs and 500 people to come to Beijing.

This is not the first time that this exaggerated number of people has been exaggerated, and the previous times it was a few thousand people.

….

"Tribute, why do you need so many people?" Zhu Houzhao didn't understand this figure very well at first.

Wang Hua replied, "Perhaps because the supplies are very heavy, thousands of cattle and sheep still need to be driven."

"Joke, thousands of cattle and sheep, one person driving one?" Zhu Houzhao rubbed his fingers, he paced slightly, and a question arose in his heart, "In the end, 2,000 people entered the customs and 500 people entered Beijing. What about the remaining 1,500 people, has anyone checked it, what are these people doing?"

In his opinion, since Dayan Khan claimed to be the lord of Zhongxing, he would not make such a decision at will, after all, this is the most memorable Mongolian leader after Genghis Khan Temujin and Xue Chan Khan Kublai Khan.

"Matter, sir

I don't know."

It's not on his head that he can't blame it.

After all, no one will come to tell him the details of the Tatar tribute, whether it is the right edict of the Zhan Mansion or the Japanese speaker of the Hanlin Academy.

"Liu Jin!"

"The slave is here!"

"Get someone who knows."

"Yes!"

As soon as the prince looked for someone, it was Honglu Siqing, who was in charge of foreign guests.

Speaking of this position, Zhu Houzhao's grandfather Zhang Luan also held it, but this was before.

Now this is only in his thirties, his face is quite upright, and he is a little handsome, coupled with a red official robe, he looks very temperamental, that is, in front of the prince, in front of others, it is really a tall old man.

"Zhoudu, let me ask you, why does the little prince have so many people in the mission every time?"

Zhou Du said: "In the past, the Mongols sent envoys to pay tribute, and there were indeed only a dozen people. However, since the early years of Hongji, the little prince has sent a large number of missions each time, and the ministers thought that they were ...... It is the little prince who is so happy with his achievements that he approves himself to be a hero, so he sends a large delegation to show his prestige as the "Great Khan of Zhongxing."

"Is there a more plausible reason?"

Zhu Houzhao still likes to think about the problem from the perspective of interests, of course, great joy and face are one thing, but if there are no actual interests, it is difficult to imagine doing such a strange thing just for the sake of face.

But to his surprise, this question actually stopped Zhou Du.

He replied, "I don't know the more reasonable reason that Your Highness said...... And what do you mean?"

He was stunned, Zhu Houzhao froze, and he thought of a question that was extremely scary, "You guys...... Haven't you even thought about this reason?"

"Perha......ps," Zhou Du thought about it and pieced together an answer, "Maybe the Tatars want to see my great Central Plains, or maybe they just want to take advantage of it."

"What's cheap?" Zhu Houzhao grasped this important point.

Zhou Du was also a little confused,

He didn't expect that the crown prince of the generation of British lords known to the outside world would ask such a small question in detail.

He didn't know whether to say it or not.

But in the end, he couldn't stand Donggong's eyes and said, "...... Wei Chen privately thought that he might just want to eat, drink and have fun for a while."

Zhu Houzhao: ???

On the one hand, he was surprised that there was such a thing as such a hospitality, and on the other hand, he was surprised that his mother could only think of hospitality.

….

"What do you mean, these 500 people, eating, drinking, and lodging in Beijing, are all paid for by the imperial court?"

Zhou Du nodded, "Not bad."

Bang!

Zhu Houzhao didn't know what he was holding in his hand, it seemed to be a teacup, and it fell directly to the ground, which scared Liu Jin and Zhou Du.

Both of them knelt down and fell to the ground.

"Zhoudu, you stop me right away! I still have people starving to death, and I still spend money to entertain them?"

Zhou Du felt wronged, and immediately replied quickly: "Your Highness, foreign envoys have always been received by the imperial court, and this is something that the emperor and the cabinet have agreed. Moreover, this matter is an old example, which has always been handled this way, and now it has changed suddenly, which is ...... How do you explain it?"

"Who are you going to explain?" Zhu Houzhao questioned him.

"Nature...... Naturally, it is with the Tatar envoys."

"You are an official of my Ming Dynasty, and the object you want to explain is the prince of this palace, not a Tatar envoy! Furthermore, has his little prince changed the old examples? Such a large mission also started with him, right? Did he change it? How can he change it, but the prince of the Ming Dynasty in this palace can't change it?"

Zhu Houzhao was so angry that it was this kind of tributary trade that suffered in ancient times, and he pointed to Zhou Du and said, "You are just a Honglu Temple, and this palace should not blame you for spending money. But as you just said, the little prince is so happy, send that

Many people came to the capital to show off their might, what's wrong? He's here to show us off, and he wants us to pay him?!"

This is the truth, but in the hearts of the ancients, as a prince, it is inevitable to be stingy when he talks like this, where is the bearing of the Celestial Empire.

Liu Jin was careful and reminded, "Your Highness's concern is not unreasonable. However, foreign-related matters are not trivial, do you still need to discuss with the emperor and the cabinet? If the relationship between the two countries is stiffened, it will not be good."

This is the reason, diplomacy is no trivial matter, and the ancients thought so. Such a hasty decision, neither the cabinet nor Emperor Hongzhi knew about it, and it was indeed not good.

But Zhu Houzhao is also a little disdainful, what is rigid or not ossified,

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di are going to exterminate other people's seeds, and they don't know how much blood of the Ming people on their hands are also first, the little prince.

Now the border is still fighting, this kind of feud, this kind of relationship, are you still afraid of ossification? Is it possible to hope to have a friendship with them?

After some thought, he said to Zhou Du, "You can go back and stop this old practice now, and as for my father and the cabinet, this palace will go and say."

The so-called national congress and the people's pride, now the Tatar momentum is relatively sufficient, so those Tatars who come to the capital also feel like an upper-class person. This can't bear it, now we have to pay for eating and drinking Lazar, Zhu Houzhao has to be stingy with him this time anyway.

"And don't forget the 1,500." After thinking about it, he felt that it was wrong, "Liu Jin, you go and check, what are these people doing."

He concluded that there was a reason behind it, and whatever it was, he would make them uncomfortable first.

It is said that after Zhou Du left the East Palace, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and the will of the East Palace was unheard of, where did he dare to take it like this? In case something happens to these 500 people in the capital and loses the face of the emperor and the court, then he really has no place to be buried.

But the prince was so angry, he didn't dare to ignore it directly, and after thinking about it, he went directly into the cabinet to report.

The eldest son of Da Ming.

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