Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 85 The Ming Dynasty

A few more days passed.

Jin Yiwei's investigation did not yield results so quickly.

On this day, the main hall was on holiday and there was no need to attend classes, because there were envoys from Ryukyu, Annan, Korea, Usmao and Japan who came to Yingtian to pay tribute. They seemed to have agreed, even if they were in different locations across the world , all came to Yingtian within these few days.

Annan's envoy was the last to arrive.

Zhu Yuanzhang accepted their tribute, and in order to show the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, he would also reward some treasures and allow them to stay in the capital for a few more days.

A state banquet was also prepared to entertain these envoys.

These are the manifestations of the suzerain country showing its strength to the vassal country.

Among them, the Japanese country is not a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. In the past few years, several small countries such as Ryukyu have come over. This year, the Japanese country also came to join in the fun, which surprised Zhu Yuanzhang, but since they came to pay tribute, they would not drive them away. .

Recently, Japanese pirates have become more frequent along the coast, and most of them are from the Japanese country. Zhu Yuanzhang is preparing to find an opportunity to attack those Japanese pirates.

Just because there was a state banquet, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally wanted to show off the grandeur of the Ming Dynasty clan and show off their national prestige. The main hall was suspended today and he brought a group of princes, grandsons, and important officials to meet the envoys.

Ryukyu and other vassal states naturally showed great respect to the Ming Dynasty.

The representatives sent by the Japanese country showed only a little respect, but there was also a hint of greed in their eyes.

Zhu Xuan followed Zhu Yuanzhang and watched the reactions of the envoys.

According to memory, today's small days are still in the Muromachi era, and they will soon enter their Warring States era. Even without internal stability, they are already greedy for the Ming Dynasty.

Don’t let your little days stay!
  Zhu Xuan was thinking.

Since we want to change history, of course we have to change it thoroughly, and we must go to Tokyo to enjoy the cherry blossoms!
  Zhu Yuanzhang met them politely and entertained them with fine wine and food from the Ming Dynasty. Now that the Ming Dynasty was rich, he would not be stingy in demonstrating his national power.

"Brother, it's boring!"

Zhu Yunxi saw Lao Zhu and came to lecture the envoys of the vassal states. As a great power, he scolded the representatives of the Japanese state.

Probably he scolded the Japanese for not restraining their own people, which caused the Japanese pirates to cause chaos along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. If this continues, the Japanese will be destroyed by the Ming Dynasty.

The Japanese pirates were very disapproving of this and just listened respectfully on the surface.

Back then, the Mongols were unable to defeat the Japanese.

These people did not believe that Zhu Yuanzhang had the ability to defeat him.

Then, representatives of Ryukyu complained to Zhu Yuanzhang.

They said that the Japanese often invaded Ryukyu and killed people at will.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he couldn't help but reprimanded the Japanese country again. As the suzerain country, Ryukyu cannot be wronged...

Seeing the disapproving expressions of the Japanese, Zhu Xuan felt a little unhappy. Before he could reply to Zhu Yunxi's words, Zhu Yunxi next to him said first: "Second brother, if you are bored, eat more. If you are full, you will not be bored."

The scene where Lao Zhu lectures is indeed rather boring.

Other Uncle Wang, no matter how much they have, they just eat what they have to eat.

The same is true for Zhu Yunxuan.

Zhu Xuan said: "It should be over soon."

After finishing speaking, he was thinking again, how about persuading Zhu Yuanzhang to lift the sea ban?
  The maritime ban of the Ming Dynasty was not only to guard against Japanese pirates, but also to guard against the remaining forces such as Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen.

They fled overseas, hoping to make a comeback.

Zhu Yuanzhang was still worried that they would really fight back, because the Ming Dynasty's coastline was too long to be fully defended, so he simply banned the sea and cut it across the board.

In the end, it became a piece of cake that was not allowed to enter the sea.

It became a closed country.

Zhu Xuan also wants to change this situation. Ming Dynasty cannot lag behind the West, but must crush the West.

Unconsciously, he thought too much.

Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang again, he saw that the lecture was almost complete, and the state banquet was coming to an end and could be ended.

After the Jin Yiwei sent the envoys out of the palace, today's state banquet ended like this. Many princes and grandsons left one after another, but Zhu Yuanzhang kept Zhu Xuan behind.

Zhu Yunwen saw so many imperial grandsons, but Zhu Yuanzhang only left Zhu Xuan alone, and the flames of jealousy burned brightly again.

In the past, the only one who could get such pampering was herself, but now everything is different.

He is jealous!

Back to the main hall.

Zhu Yuanzhang exhaled and said: "Did you see it, dear grandson? Those are the vassal states of our Ming Dynasty, but the Japanese state is not included!"

"The Japanese country is not our vassal state. They would not come here before, but this time they came together with several other countries to pay tribute. This surprised us. We don't know what the Japanese people want to do."

"But I look at their expressions and pretend they don't hear my lectures."

"It's really hateful!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said and asked: "What do you think of those Japanese people?"

When asked about the Japanese state, Zhu Xuan remembered Kang Mazi's later evaluation of the Japanese people, saying: "Based on the descriptions of the Japanese state in the ancient books that my grandson has read in the past two years, I feel that the Japanese state is the most capricious country. He is a very humble person, he does not know the kindness in the world, and he is only intimidated by the power of force... Therefore, you must not have any good feelings toward him."

"well said!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this comment, he immediately clapped his hands and praised it.

The evaluation is very accurate!
  Zhu Xuan added: "Grandpa Huang, my grandson believes that the Japanese cannot stay."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "Guaisun means, all destroyed?"

Zhu Xuan nodded.

It should all be destroyed.

Zhu Yuanzhang appreciated that he could think this way. He felt that his good grandson was becoming more and more like him. As an emperor, he should be ruthless. He said: "But Kublai Khan back then had a strong army. He combined 30,000 people and divided it into nine. We have hundreds of ships to attack Japan, but we still can’t capture them.”

Zhu Xuan shook his head and said: "Grandpa Huang is a hundred times more powerful than Kublai Khan. It is so easy to conquer a mere Japanese country!"

"We like to hear what my dear grandson says!"

However, Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of going to sea, and said: "An overseas island country is not as big as the Ming Dynasty. It is difficult to achieve success. If we want to destroy the Japanese country and cross the ocean, we will have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources. We have the energy, so why not Keep going north.”

After a pause, he added: "My grandson, please remember that you have to take a long-term view and don't have to be limited by an overseas island country."

But a few hundred years later, this overseas Japanese country will cause the land of China and its mountains and rivers to be shattered!
  But Zhu Xuan couldn't explain what happened in the future.

Today, Ming Dynasty's strategic goal is still the grassland, and the greatest threat to Ming Dynasty comes from the grassland, not from overseas.

If the enemy in Mobei is not dealt with, Zhu Yuanzhang will not be able to stabilize, and he is also afraid that his descendants will not be able to defend the country in the future.

These ideas are similar to Zhu Di's.

During Zhu Di's five northern expeditions, the emperor guarded the country, hoping that while he was still alive, he could create eternal peace for future generations and eliminate the threat from the north.

"My grandson understands!"

Zhu Xuan nodded solemnly.

If Grandpa Huang really does not want to destroy the Japanese country, then this important task will be shouldered by him in the future, and he must go to sea to fight against it.

(End of this chapter)