Xinshun 1730

Chapter 380 The difference between inside and outside
If it is a colony, it is even more so.Whether it is Ryukyu or North Korea, the governor is not appointed by the Celestial Dynasty, but inherited by the local royal family.

If it is a vassal state, it is somewhat similar. The vassals of the vassals are not my vassals. The Ryukyu King of Korea is the courtier of the emperor, but the courtiers of North Korea are not the courtiers of the emperor.

Applied to the Westphalian system, what is this?
It was precisely for this purpose that Li Gan allowed the Western envoys to enter the capital first and the Ryukyu queen to enter the capital.

When the Duke of Qi asked Liu Yu about the translation of Russian credentials, Liu Yu really cheated the missionary.

The map with the words "regnum sina" on the Hanfali Kingdom really made Li Gan feel an indescribable displeasure.

In addition to Liu Yu's embellishment, Li Gan was always wary of Westerners breaking up the empire into legal kingdoms to draw maps.

Today's matter is to use Ryukyu to tell Western countries what the suzerain-vassal system really means.

In the previous exchanges, I always tried to explain clearly from the basics, trying to make Westerners understand the problem from the perspective of Chinese culture.

But it’s too troublesome to talk about, since the culture is not clear, and the concept of Tianxia cannot be explained clearly, so it should be used in foreign exchanges with facts.

Both the "Li government" and the "Ministry of Foreign Affairs" are divided, and there are differences between inside and outside.

You must know what it is and why it is.

Externally, as long as the result is enough.

The so-called result is to let the Western countries sign a treaty, agreeing that under the suzerain-vassal system, Dashun has the diplomatic, political and other powers of the dependent countries, and the Western countries are not allowed to bypass Dashun and contact the Chinese suzerains.

Sure enough, it worked.

Several Western envoys probably also saw the meaning of this.

The Swedish envoy thought to himself, this matter has nothing to do with me. At most, I have a group of pirates in Madagascar. We have no control over the affairs of East Asia and Southeast Asia, and we are not qualified to formulate international laws. We only want normal trade.You are what you say.

The British envoy thought, fortunately, the Netherlands expelled them from Southeast Asia and East Asia, and almost established a business office in Ryukyu, but they withdrew in the first year of Tianqi, and never went there again.And the Mughal Empire in India, no matter how you say it, cannot be your vassal state, and this matter has nothing to do with me.

The Portuguese tribute envoy thought that Spain was in trouble, and Sulu was a tributary state of Dashun.As for Southeast Asia, we had some influence back then, but we were driven away by the Dutch, and this matter has nothing to do with me.

The envoys had their own ideas, and except for the Netherlands and Spain, which were not present, no one reached out to Southeast Asia.Even though Britain and France reached out in the Ming Dynasty, they were all driven away by the Dutch. At this time, it is nothing to do with themselves.

No one wants to offend Dashun at this time. After opening and closing the trade, the competition is fierce. Dashun can decide who to ban from selling, or directly drive out the business hall.

Why bother to harm your own interests for something that has nothing to do with you?In order to keep Macau, Portugal still pays tribute even though it can be diplomatic. At this time, it has nothing to do with Dashun, isn't that stupid?

Although due to cultural differences, they could not understand the concept of the Celestial Dynasty, nor the meaning of suzerain vassal, but they understood what Dashun wanted to express with their own familiar way of thinking.

After all, Westerners were not included in the tributary system.

For Westerners outside the tributary system, this time it was just Dashun declaring ownership.

But for North Korea, which is also in the tributary system, it has seen a bit of killing chickens to scare monkeys.

This time, Dashun also asked North Korea to send a tribute envoy, which was considered a good time.North Korea needs to know about starting a war against Japan.

It may not be necessary for North Korea to send troops, but the North Korean trade after Japan's switch, the lease of two lands by the Chinese Dynasty for trade, and the immigration of Whale Sea all need to be thoroughly finalized through this matter.

When seeing the Ryukyu King Zibo coming, the North Korean envoy felt very uncomfortable.

If it is true according to Ryukyu's theory, North Korea's buttocks are not clean.

If Dashun really wanted to find fault, he didn't need to find fault with the egg, he could find a lot of reasons casually, and he was famous for his success.

It wasn't until Li Gan announced the four major crimes committed by the Ryukyu Kingdom that the North Korean envoy was relieved.

After all, they are insiders in the Chinese cultural circle, and they can still understand the implication of the profound meaning expressed by the emperor in public.

Obviously, the emperor reprimanded Ryukyu and lowered the kingdom to be a viscount. He seemed to be talking about Ryukyu, but he was actually sending a message to North Korea: Dashun would not pursue those matters in North Korea.

The Celestial Dynasty has inheritance.

Shun destroyed the Ming, and took the orthodoxy of Ming, but before Xi'an was established, Ming was still orthodox, and Dashun would not deny this.

Just like Li Shimin announced the five major crimes of Jieli Khan after he captured Jieli Khan, the first major crime is: Your father Qimin Khan was able to secure his seat by relying on the Great Sui Dynasty. When the Sui Dynasty was in trouble, you It is a crime not to send out a single soldier.

It's just that for Dashun, the mentality of Tang Chao's saying this is different. Even though Dashun compares himself to Li Tang all day long, there is a hurdle that cannot be avoided.

Although the Tang Dynasty also fought for the world, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was not killed by the Li family.Moreover, in name, Sui Dynasty was located in Tang Dynasty.

But Dashun is different, Dashun doesn't even have the chance to take a form of abdication, so he can only learn "mangxin".

Wang Mang conferred the title of Duke Ding'an to the Crown Prince of Han; Li Zicheng also conferred the title of Duke Ding'an to the Third Prince Zhu, which is more or less perfect.

As a result, after the Piece of Stone War, Duke Ding'an disappeared.

After all, Chongzhen was not forced to death by the Manchus, he was indeed killed by the people's resistance. Although the tree was not planted by the hungry people, and the rope was not hung by the hungry people, the Manchus really did it for them. Emperor Chongzhen entered the pass in the name of revenge, and Nanming did admit that the two emperors, the north and the south, were brothers in the country, but Dashun was the only one who was a bandit.

This led to some things. Dashun was actually very awkward when he said it, and he kept avoiding some questions.

Today, Li Gan used the excuse that Ryukyu did not have a single soldier after Sarhu, and blew up Ryukyu's kingdom title. On the contrary, North Korea breathed a sigh of relief.

Knowing that this is a crime of intentional crime, it is impossible for the king of Tang to raise troops to serve the king, let alone Ryukyu.

Although I am worried that this kind of crime will be imposed on North Korea one day, but for North Korea at this moment, after all, there are more blessings and less worries for North Korea.

In fact, North Korea has always regarded Ming as orthodox and did not recognize Dashun.Moreover, after North Korea surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, there were musketeers and Dashun fought in Liaodong.

Internally, a certain age of Chongzhen has been used secretly. Even when Chongzhen hanged himself 30 years ago, the king of Joseon set up an altar to pay homage.

However, considering that Chongzhen was forced to death by Dashun, he did not dare to blatantly pay homage to Chongzhen, but to pay homage to Wanli to thank him for his grace of rebuilding.This belongs to the sidelines.

Dashun is not a barbarian.

But North Korea still doesn't like Dashun.

One is that the Ming Dynasty had a great kindness to North Korea. Ming Taizu bestowed the name of the country, and Wanli assisted the Dynasty to preserve the ancestral temple.

The second is that North Korea has created a caste-based two-class aristocratic system, and has a natural aversion to Dashun's low-level uprising that won the world: if Dashun's celestial dynasty is legal, then in the future, the bottom-level uprising to overthrow the Korean Lee family will be legal. or not?
Three internal factions in North Korea are constantly fighting, and cronies have formed, but gentlemen say nothing of righteousness. Cliques are actually out of interests, but they still talk about righteousness on the surface.In addition, Dashun's official ideology is not Zhu Zixue, but the chaotic Yongjia and Yongkang studies that are broken but not established.

Fourth, because Dashun immigrated to Liaodong on a large scale, North Korea was extremely nervous; and Dashun was stimulated by Liaodong in the late Ming Dynasty, and this kind of emigration was a kind of paranoia like a stress response.Coupled with issues such as ginseng trade, cross-border ginseng harvesting, and border smuggling, friction between the two sides continues.

If Dashun really wanted to trouble North Korea, there were really too many reasons, so when the King of Ryukyu tied himself up and pleaded guilty, the North Korean envoys would be terrified.

When Japan changed its reign name to Masanori, Dashun was overly nervous, thinking that Japan was borrowing the name of the former dynasty, and it also led to the fact that there were no Chinese ships in the Nagasaki trade that year, because the trade letters with the Masanori reign were all It was confiscated by Dashun.

If Dashun really made trouble with the reign issue, the crime would be almost the same as that of Ryukyu.

North Korea knew that Dashun knew, and also knew that Dashun was pretending not to know.It can be said that until today, Dashun has finally expressed his attitude. It is not a crime for North Korea to use the reign name of the Ming Dynasty.

One is to reprimand Ryukyu for not having a single soldier after Sarhu, and the other is to say that it is okay for Ryukyu to regard the "false Ming" as Zhengshuo after Chongzhen hanged himself. After all, he did not directly vote for Manchu.

This is talking about Ryukyu, and it is also talking about North Korea: North Korea voted for the Manchus, but this matter has been officially exposed, and the old crimes will not be repeated; There has been a great kindness, and if such a great kindness is forgotten, it is regarded as forgetting the origin.

Some things cannot be said directly. It is impossible for Emperor Dashun to arrest the North Korean envoy and ask: Are you still using the reign name of Chongzhen?Once you ask, it's over.

Just like today's grand event, Dashun didn't invite Vietnam, because Dashun also knew that Vietnam was the king of Dashun and internally, so he couldn't invite Vietnam to participate in today's event.Either keep pretending not to know, or it is an excuse for war.

That's not like North Korea's borderline behavior: nostalgia for the grace of reconstruction, and self-proclaimed emperor, this is not a matter of the same level.

In this roundabout way, North Korea is actually being told two things.

First, Dashun can find this kind of "crime for wanting to impose" wherever he wants.Have you seen what happened to Ryukyu?
Second, let's forget about your business.But you must agree to my request.

The North Korean envoy knew what Dashun wanted in return, and asked North Korea to open two ports. Dashun wanted to lease two lands, one as a transit for trade and the development of Whale Sea;

The reason is also very reasonable.

Shibian Whale Sea is to guard against Rakshasa in the north, and anti-Rakshasa is to protect North Korea.

The purpose of monitoring the Wa Kingdom is to prevent the Japanese Invasion in Imjin from happening again. The sages plan ahead, the Ming Dynasty saved you, and I, Dashun, will make the Wa Kingdom never have the chance to fight you again.

North Korea, at this time, owes Dashun a favor.It was Shangguo who came forward and recognized the legitimacy of Joseon king Li Chong: the emperor issued an imperial edict, saying that "Li Chong poisoned his brother with ginseng soup" was a rumor.

(End of this chapter)