"Brush."

In the imperial study, Zhu Qizhen turned a page and rubbed his eyebrows tiredly.

After all these years, he is no longer the young boy he once was.

Now he is a twenty-six-year-old adult, wearing a dragon robe, with a majestic appearance, showing the dignity of an emperor in his gestures.

Government affairs and the like have been handled very skillfully, but such heavy affairs are somewhat difficult to bear.

Thanks to the presence of the cabinet, otherwise I would have been really tired to death.

He sighed softly, and secretly said that the old ancestor was wise in setting up the cabinet.

Taking the notebook that had already been reviewed and putting it aside, he looked at the next one.

This is the performance of the Ministry of Rites, and the seven big characters of "Chen Wara Entering the Tribute" are written on the cover, which makes Zhu Qizhen feel an ominous premonition.

Turning over the folds, there is a strong aura of the Ministry of Rites.

"Warat is also the first, every time the tribute is paid, there are 2,000 horses, tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, and the number of envoys is as many as more than 3,000."

"To receive people, you must have wine, meat, food, a comfortable house, and you need to be rewarded with gold, silver, and jewelry, which cost a lot of money."

"Now, in a year, the number of tributes paid by the mission has reached as many as five times, and the feast is huge, and the treasury is emptied!"

"Please ask Your Majesty to issue a decree to reprimand, or cut off the first prince as a punishment!"

The only ones who can make the Book of Rites, who are full of poetry and books, like this, are the brothers from Wara.

There is no other, because it is really not authentic first.

The tributary trade system is the main trade system since the cessation of going to the West, and the prefectures have opened mutual markets, and they can come and go freely, but there is no Warat, although they can fight, but they are really poor.

In order to save money, he also continued to pay tribute.

When the first tribute was paid, the mission only had more than 200 people, with thousands of horses, cattle and sheep, and only came once a year, which was a very normal tribute process.

In order to show their wealth, the Ming Dynasty naturally couldn't let them hand over tribute in vain, and gave back the corresponding value of gold, silver and jewelry, and at the same time, the corresponding personnel were also rewarded, and the overall value was far from the tribute.

In the eyes of future generations, isn't this a big injustice? It's good if I don't rob you. However, in the eyes of the emperors and civil officials in ancient times, giving a large number of rewards to the so-called "barbarians" around them was a long-faced behavior to show the wealth of China.

Anyway, once a year, I can afford it.

But who is the first, he has repeatedly robbed the Ming Frontier, and he is poor, so he will naturally not be polite.

After tasting the sweetness, he paid tribute more and more frequently.

By the seventeenth year of orthodoxy, it had developed to several tributes a year, and each tribute carried a large number of cattle and sheep and a mission of up to thousands of people.

And because it is a tribute, you can't accept it, and you have to give gold and silver at the same value, which is equivalent to buying and selling.

The mission, even more than 2,000 people.

Yes, two thousand, also known as three thousand, just wanted to cheat the reward.

Two thousand people, it's enough to fight a small battle, these guys are not honest, stealing chickens and dogs, blocking the road and robbing are not less.

Daming not only had to buy cattle, sheep and horses, but also was responsible for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of 2,000 people, and finally gave rewards when people left, thanking them for their hard work to come to Daming to cheat and eat and drink, and harass the people.

In the long run, although other courtiers indulged in the illusion of "guest clothes from all over the world", the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Households, who were in charge of reception, complained bitterly, and people of insight in the court were also strongly dissatisfied with this.

Zhu Qizhen is not a fool, so he naturally saw the idea first, this is using Daming as an ATM!

"Didn't I stipulate before that the number of tributes in Warat should not exceed three hundred!"

His voice was raised, and he was clearly a little angry.

"Your Majesty, Wara didn't listen to the order first, and still ordered more than 3,000 people to pay tribute for the mission......" Jin Ying on the side said with a wry smile.

"What did he think of Da Ming? Did he come to pay tribute or to get money for nothing? Did I sign the Abyss Alliance with Warat? ”

Zhu Qizhen was even more angry when he heard this.

He was a great man, and a vassal dared to ignore his orders.

It was also at this time that the Yuanma Temple, which was in charge of the Daming Ma Zheng, also came to report.

"Your Majesty, the horses that are paid tribute to Wara are all inferior horses, and there are even sick horses, old horses, etc., and none of them are good horses except for the horses in the front row."

Yuan Ma Siqing had a bitter face.

The horses that came from the steppe were generally of the best quality, and they were to be filled into the army.

If it is the Ming Dynasty in the original history, the inferior horse will be used, after all, there are few horses, and it is good to have to ride. But in this time and space, the Ming Dynasty, because of the continuous supply of horses for the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty did not lack war horses at all, and the Ming army did not look down on those inferior horses at all.

If you also joined the army first...... He will definitely be killed by the military!

"What did you say!"

But Zhu Qizhen, who heard this, clenched his fists angrily.

If this were a normal trade, the only way the horses could be sold would be to become piece by piece.

But Da Ming now buys a large number of bad horses at the price of buying good horses!

First of all, this is treating him Zhu Qizhen as a wronged man!

Thinking of this, Zhu Qizhen's head was bruised, his teeth were clenched, and his eyes were eager to choose someone to devour!

"Get out!"

"Get them all out of here!"

"All the tribute items will be deducted, and tell them first, when will the gold and silver of the previous tribute be made up, and when will I allow him to pay tribute."

"Otherwise, my Ming Dynasty will no longer recognize his Shunning king, no longer recognize the vassal status of Wara, and cancel the qualification for tribute!"

Zhu Qizhen's angry voice came from the main hall.

"Yes!"

……

All the tribute products of Warat this time were all withheld by the Ming Dynasty, and no money was given, and more than 2,000 Warat envoys were all driven out of the Great Wall.

They found it and reported it.

Those who learned of this were also furious.

As Warat's strength grew stronger, he had already lost the awe he once had for the Ming Dynasty.

The wealth of the Central Plains in the interior has long been covetous.

Why can the Ming people steal the world of flowers, but I can only graze outside this bitter cold!

At this time, with the peace of the border, the Ming army at the border has been a little lax, the combat effectiveness has declined, the generals have begun to embezzle and eat empty salaries, the Ming army is no longer what it used to be, and it is even inferior to the guards in the south who participated in many counterinsurgency.

Naturally, he looked down on them at first.

This incident directly became the fuse, and he decided not to endure it anymore.

In May of the 17th year of orthodoxy, he also officially ordered the various departments of Warat to converge and adopt the method of "three households drawing one", and drew a large army from the population of nearly 300,000 households in Warat at that time.

Countless cavalry gathered from all over the western steppe, and Warat began a full mobilization!

(End of chapter)