Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 73 The girls in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion were surrounded by the Academy

The major events of the country lie in sacrifice and Rong.

On the first day of the eighth year of Hongwu, when other ordinary people were still celebrating the Spring Festival, Zhu Qi participated in the first grand meeting with the theme of sacrifice.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, only officials of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing can participate, and only officials of the fifth rank and above can participate. In addition to the officials of the Ming Dynasty, there are also envoys from neighboring countries. The absolute core area of ​​the Central Plains, no matter what regime occupies the Central Plains, it can call itself the Kingdom of Heaven, and the rest of the small countries will come to worship as soon as they hear the news.

And the Ming Dynasty inherited the tributary system of the Han and Tang Dynasties, so naturally it would not refuse the worship of the surrounding small countries.

Zhu Yuanzhang is very diligent and thrifty with himself, but when it comes to foreign affairs, he should be solemn. After all, this represents the face of the country and the dignity of the kingdom of heaven.

At the court meeting, Zhu Qi was also wearing the prince's uniform, standing in front of the courtiers, listening to Zhu Yuanzhang finish reciting the sacrificial oration in front of him, and then shouted long live together, and made a pilgrimage.

Then the envoys from various countries presented tribute gifts, and the Ming Dynasty gave gifts in return, most of which were better than the tribute gifts.

Some people may say, ah, your tribute system is losing money, the things they send are worthless, but the things you send are so valuable, aren’t we losing money!

Indeed, on the surface, it may seem like a bit of a loss, but when it is actually disassembled and analyzed, it is not a loss at all.

It was only today that Zhu Qi found out that besides paying tribute, envoys from various countries also had an important task, that is, "doing business"!
90.00% of Ming's foreign trade is monopolized by the state, and the Central Plains Dynasty, as the origin of commodities, can basically maintain its trade surplus with any country, and the tributary system is to maintain this It is a form of national trade, and it is also a symbol of Ming's alliance with the country.

Not every country can pay tribute. For example, the Duan clan who is still entrenched in Dali now had the idea of ​​paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Yuanzhang didn’t accept it at all. Let’s not say that your Duan clan is now a courtier of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang There is no room for a king with a different surname in his eyes.

The Duan family in Dali only wanted to continue to dominate Dali, and only wanted to pay tribute. Zhu Yuanzhang's ambition was to unify the world, how could he accept it?
According to statistics, during the Xuanzong period of the Ming Dynasty when the tribute system was the most prosperous, nearly 70.00% of the world's silver and copper flowed into Daming, and in the Wanli period, including the silver mined from the American Discovery, 80.00% of the world's silver , also flowed into Daming.

It is a pity that the huge benefits of this kind of foreign trade are no longer directly controlled by the emperor, but gradually flowed into the hands of the scholar-bureaucrats under the bewitching of a group of greedy civil servants. Needless to say, the subsequent development of the country And the emperor was so poor and crazy, those scholar-bureaucrats ate their mouths full of oil, and finally their homes were ransacked by the rogues and the Manchus, and the Manchus were directly confiscated. The income from the raids alone was worth nearly ten years of Daming’s treasury income!
If there is this money, how can there be Li Zicheng?How can the Qing army enter the customs?

The Qing Dynasty, which later ruled the Central Plains, also inherited the advantages of foreign trade. Before the Opium War, [-] million taels of silver flowed in every year. In terms of economy, the only thing that could be fought was Britain, the empire on which the sun never set.

All in all, the tributary system has both advantages and disadvantages. As for whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages or the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, Zhu Qi thinks it is probably the latter. If he becomes the emperor, the tribute system is a fart. While the world is ignorant, no one has opened the full picture , Hurry up and occupy more land is the truth!

But it's just random thinking, if you really want to do this with your head in a daze, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty is a lesson learned from the past. In the Tang Dynasty, the cultural invasion, the way of occupying both kindness and power, and benefiting the world is the real kingly way.

Zhu Qi was thinking wildly here, the grand court meeting ended at noon, and everyone stayed and ate an open-air meal. Zhu Qina is a feast for the eyes.

It's a pity that it is not as good-looking as the translucent buttocks of Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Hey, my Xiaoxiang Pavilion...

Zhu Qi couldn't help being inexplicably melancholy.

It was not easy for Zhu Qi to take a breather until the end of the court meeting, but the non-stop family feast was on, and on the first day of the new year, of course they had to eat together.

After these two days, it was either having a family banquet or on the way to having a family banquet.

Fortunately, from the second day of the Lunar New Year, I can relax and relax, and so can those honorable children.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, a group of people all made an appointment together, without saying anything, and went to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion first. As for why not go to the Royal Entertainment Center, of course it is because of the current passenger flow of the Royal Entertainment Center Full!

Moreover, Zhu Qi felt that he lived to learn, and he still had a lot to learn about business in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

A group of honorable disciples surrounded His Highness Liao Wang and Yan Wang, and went straight to Xiaoxiang Pavilion. The old bustard of Xiaoxiang Pavilion was very excited when he saw His Highness Liao Wang, and fainted in the arms of His Highness Liao Wang on the spot. With a flushed face, he asked:
"Your Highness, why haven't you come to see us for so long? The girls miss you so much. A day without His Highness King Liao, the girls can't sleep all night."

Look, this is called professionalism, reward, immediately reward!

After Zhu Qi rewarded, he immediately said that he and others were here for research, so he hurriedly called a group of girls to come, and the king wanted to personally inspect how the business level was.

This time the old bustard looked silky, flicked the handkerchief and said, unfortunately, there is no girl today.

When Zhu Qi heard this, he was very surprised. Is this Jiaofang Secretary also on holiday for the Chinese New Year?
Then I heard the old bustard explain that several academies together hosted a banquet for some high-ranking officials in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and the girls in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion were made round by them.

Just like in modern times, various academic institutions regularly hold some seminars. In the early Ming Dynasty, private schools and academies were very developed, and many of the candidates who were admitted to fame were from academies.

The academy focuses on lectures, participates in the evaluation of political affairs, praises and criticizes figures, and often invites civil servants and celebrities to talk about classics and history to comment on political affairs.

For example, the Donglin Party, which was very popular in the late Ming Dynasty, started from Donglin Academy and grew in scale.

However, Zhu Qi never expected that these academies would find officials to comment on political affairs, and even if they accumulated political experience, they would find all the girls from the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. It seems that the scale this time is quite large.

As for why you need a prostitute for a lecture, it is of course an arty habit since ancient times.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Di suggested, "Why don't we go to another house?"

Zhu Di had just finished speaking when he heard someone walking out of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and asked in great surprise:

"The two lords are His Royal Highness King Liao, His Highness King Yan?"

Zhu Qi was taken aback for a moment, then he saw a middle-aged man with a gray beard standing in front of him, he definitely didn't know him, Zhu Di nodded beside him, and said:

"Who are you?"

The man hurriedly approached, and after being stopped by Gao Jin, he introduced himself politely.

He is a lecturer at Chongzheng Academy, and he came out after hearing what Zhu Qi and others said. It is quite rare for him to see the two princes at once, but he still asked, the two princes What are you here for?

Zhu Qi was taken aback, he couldn’t say that he came to Goulan, right? Although Zhu Yuanzhang hadn’t banned officials from entering and leaving the Fengyue place at this time, in history, Hongwu had banned officials from going to the Fengyue place for activities since the tenth year of Hongwu, and Zhu Qi’s concept Among them, it is more or less unreasonable for a man to come to this kind of place, while others can come over openly, but Zhu Qi is embarrassed to go in openly.

But Zhu Qi didn't panic, and said with his hands behind his back:
"Heh, I heard that some academies give lectures here, so my king naturally came to have a look."

Hearing that the lecturer was ecstatic for a while, he didn't expect that his lectures in the academy would attract His Royal Highness Liao Wang and Yan Wang over here!
Needless to say, please come inside quickly!
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(End of this chapter)