Coincidentally.

After learning that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had issued an edict denouncing the Tokugawa clan for its indecent establishment of the shogunate and demanding that it stop breaking the ritual law, the Siamese king Na Li Xuan directly took the case and said to the minister Bo Sheng and others:

"This is the greatness of His Majesty the Emperor of the Kingdom today!"

"The prestige of the above country, the maintenance of the etiquette and religion, the previous Burmese Mang clan rituals, the Holy Emperor raised soldiers and begged for it, this time the same is true for the Tokugawa clan, and it is truly worthy of being the lord of the world!"

After hearing this, Bo Sheng replied at this time: "Your Highness is wise, there is such a great co-lord of the world, we should cooperate with it, and together we will maintain the great gifts of the world, so that it will become the consensus of the world, and no one dares to offend!" ”

"In this way, our country's Sheji Sect Temple can also be sustained for a long time."

"That's right! Since the Holy Emperor has the ambition to support the great gifts of the world, I am equivalent to the orthodox lineage, and I should continue to support the whole country. ”

"Pass my decree and give it to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and say that I, the Kingdom of Siam, am willing to send troops to the Wa Kingdom for His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to conquer the Tokugawa clan."

Na Lixuan said at this time.

Bo Sheng is busy obeying the order.

In this era, the Ming Dynasty and many surrounding vassal states had their own international standards.

And this criterion is to prevent the usurpation of the throne in every country.

Usurpation is seen as a bad gift.

As the suzerain, the Ming Dynasty also gained international fame by maintaining this kind of etiquette.

Every time the Ming Emperor was willing to uphold this kind of etiquette, the other vassal states would be more attentive to the Ming Dynasty, after all, they did not want to be usurped by domestic careerists.

Now Zhu Yijun asked the Tokugawa clan not to establish their own shogunate, which really hit the hearts of these foreign vassals, so that they were more active than Zhu Yijun himself.

In fact, Zhu Yijun's desire to clean up the Tokugawa clan is not only a ritual that must be decided by himself to maintain the orthodox status, but also because the Tokugawa clan is not as easy to control as the Ashikaga clan.

At the same time, there are also reasons why supporting the weak to gain a higher status politically and can get greater benefits economically.

Of course, Zhu Yijun's maintenance of the legitimacy of any vassal state must be recognized by himself, the Ming Emperor, is also beneficial, that is, if these orthodox monarchs want to maintain their orthodox status in the future, they must make more concessions to the Ming Dynasty economically.

Otherwise, Da Ming may tear up the ticket at any time and abolish his orthodox status.

In short, Zhu Yijun's ambition is to establish an international order that maximizes the interests of the Ming Dynasty by reforming the etiquette law.

Those who abide by the etiquette laws set by the Ming Emperor can continue to be slave owners in their own country, and those who do not abide by it must wait to be wiped out by the Ming Dynasty and all the vassal states.

all these years.

The benefits brought by Zhu Yijun's transformation of etiquette are visible.

Not to mention anything else, even the intensity of punishing domestic criminals has been reduced a lot, and the main focus is no longer on extermination, but on exile.

The main reason behind this is that the internal contradictions are not so violent, and there is a more in line with the interests of the winners.

Take, for example, the luxury tax that Qi Jiguang's cabinet has recently introduced.

Li Yingchen, the former Xiangcheng Bo, and Liu Shiyan, the sincerity Bo, should feel fortunate now, after all, the emperor did not choose to kill them because they prevented and fought against the luxury tax, but only exiled them.

However, Li Yingchen and Liu Shiyan are not very happy now.

For them, exile was also very difficult for them.

You must know that these veteran nobles have long been pampered and pampered, and they are more and more useless when they encounter serious things.

For example, in history, whether Li Zicheng entered Beijing or the Qing army entered Nanjing, most of the nobles surrendered directly and knelt to greet them, without blood, but they were more active than one in the aspect of bullying and annexing, so that one by one they were so rich that they were so rich that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were rich people who could do something to buy a famous prostitute as a concubine.

Therefore, for veteran nobles such as Li Yingchen and Liu Shiyan, exile is like asking for their lives.

"I might as well be dead, woo! It might just be buried in Middle-earth. ”

"Is Ezo a place for people, I'm really worse than dead!"

At this time, Li Yingchen stood on the boat bound for Ezo and wept in the wind.

The few righteous servants who came with him did not cry, but saw that they were more and more sad for their master, so they all gritted their teeth, and at the same time kept an eye on Li Yingchen, afraid that Li Yingchen would really commit suicide by jumping into the sea.

And when Li Yingchen arrived in Ezo and saw the grasslands all over the mountains and the few populations of Ezo, he was even more sad, and only asked Mu Changyong, the general of the Ming army who came to receive him:

"How long will the current exiles live?"

"I don't know about this, there are no old ones yet."

Mu Changyong replied.

Li Yingchen asked very unexpectedly: "No?" ”

Mu Changyong glanced at him: "Uncle Li, can I still lie to you?" I also came here because of exile, I was originally the second concubine of the Qianguo Mansion, because of the private gold mine, I was exiled here, and now it has been six years, not only do I live well, but I have also become the general manager here. ”

"You're also a noble?"

"Or from the Qianguo Mansion?"

Li Yingchen smiled happily at this time, and hurriedly asked, "Then how did you survive?" ”

"How can they live, there are also slaves and maids here, that is, the local white people, they are very poor, just give them a little food and cotton cloth, they can become slaves."

"As long as you let your servants who can raise horses raise official horses for you, the wages you get can feed several white slaves."

The natives of Ezo Island are basically white people who migrated from the north, and it was only later in history that the Japanese people expanded, so that the local natives basically disappeared.

Therefore, Mu Changyong mentioned the white slave at this time.

After Mu Changyong spoke, he pointed to Lu Bocheng, who was flying a red background flag in front of him, and said: "Let's go to the city, don't worry too much about getting sick, the most sick here are the local white people, they are isolated from the world, infected with our common diseases, but it is not easy to live, so the longer they stay here, the fewer they are." ”

Li Yingchen nodded after hearing this.

Liu Shiyan, who was in the same penal colony as Li Yingchen, was on his way to Ezo at this time, and he was also reluctant to go to Middle-earth, especially Jiangnan.

Moreover, it was only at this time that Liu Shiyan showed remorse, so he looked at one of the most loyal righteous servants who also came with him and said:

"Bao Yun, you send someone back and ask them to ask their relatives and friends to give Your Majesty a book, just say that I, Liu Shiyan, know that I am wrong, and I should not condone my children to do my own thing, nor should I rely on myself to discuss the government after I am the founding minister, and beg Your Majesty to let me go back, even if I go back, I can raise horses."

Liu Shiyan squatted on the ground and covered his face and sobbed as he spoke.

Obviously, Liu Shiyan is also very afraid of going to Ezo.

Leaving a familiar place and going to a strange place is not an easy thing for modern people to accept, let alone the ancient times of relocation.

It's still Liu Shiyan.

Moreover, he is still going to a place that is rumored to be far away in a foreign country, and even in a foreign country it is a very remote place.

But civilization needs those who commit crimes to pioneer.

After all, people who have made meritorious contributions cannot be allowed to settle in these wild places and then open up civilization, so why should people actively make meritorious contributions?

However, now many people who have made meritorious contributions in the Ming Dynasty are also migrating.

This is related to the fact that the civilization of the Ming Empire itself was expanding externally.

In such places as Dongnae and Hepinghu, Nagasaki, Luzon, and Mubang in Burma, there are already many officials and generals who have made meritorious contributions and are moving their families to these places.

The main reason is that after the initial development of these places, there are already many fertile fields and industries.

They moved their families to these places because they had lived in these places more than they had in Middle-earth.

For example, in Middle-earth, a low-level official below the seventh grade, because the people cannot be enslaved and oppressed at will, and there are fewer and fewer people who sell their children and women, resulting in a high cost of manpower, it is difficult to experience the life of a superior person, and there is less and less land that can be annexed, so it is better to come out.

In this way, there is not only a large amount of fertile land that can be annexed, but also a more real experience of the life of the people, after all, the natives of these places can be enslaved at will.

What's more, these places have already been initially developed, and many Han Chinese have migrated to them, so living there is no different from living in Middle-earth.

These are the effects of transforming the rituals.

Because Zhu Yijun reformed the etiquette law, even the implementation of luxury tax is easier now, as the Ming Dynasty expanded many indoctrination areas overseas, and also stationed troops in Ryukyu, Korea, Siam and other countries, in the name of maintaining the etiquette law, and in fact, also set up tax supervision offices in these places, all the luxury goods to the indoctrination areas and the vassal countries will be checked by the Ming tax supervisor before entering these places for sale, which naturally makes the smuggling of luxury goods more difficult, which is conducive to the collection of luxury goods.

Now, through the imposition of a luxury tax, the revenues of the treasury and the inner treasury are indeed increasing.

Although taxes are collected by the national treasury, because the treasury borrows the debt of the treasury, the treasury also increases its revenue.

As a result, Zhu Yijun's funds to go to Jiangnan are becoming more and more sufficient.

However, although there are fewer and fewer people who oppose the collection of luxury tax, there are still many people who disobey the law.

The most important thing is that the generals themselves are violating the yang and yin, especially some people in Qi Jiguang's old department are beginning to rely on Qi Jiguang is first assistant to believe in themselves, and they start to do things that are contrary to yang and yin, just to maximize their personal interests.

No way, there are always greedy people in this world.

Qi Jiguang's old department is not all people who have great righteousness and do not covet immediate benefits, and there are also people who are hungry for profit.

Hu Can, the national tax collector of Linqing Prefecture, did not impose a luxury tax on merchants who bribed him in advance, but he did not want the tax he paid to look too small, so he forcibly called the ordinary goods sold by ordinary traders a luxury tax, which caused many merchants to complain.

Hu Can naturally knew that this would be discovered sooner or later, so he sent his younger brother Hu Rong to Beijing to see Qi Jiguang in advance, and handed over an account book to Qi Jiguang, and said to Qi Jiguang:

"This is the account book of the silver dollars that my brother collected for the Guogong Mansion at the Linqing Banknote Customs, please take a look at it."

The Hu brothers were originally members of the Qi family, but they were later released from the government to become officials of the imperial court, and they became Qi Jiguang's old department, but they still called Qi Jiguang their master, so that they could appear closer to the Qi family than other old departments.

(End of chapter)