If you talk about the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty, it can be regarded as a pit dug by Comrade Zhu Chongba for future generations, this pit is not big, but it is very capable of pitting people!

Since Zhu Chongba expelled the Tatars and restored China, in order to demonstrate the prestige and grandeur of the Han dynasty, Comrade Zhu Chongba clearly listed 15 countries, including Korea, the Wa Kingdom, the Great Ryukyu, the Small Ryukyu, Annam, Zhenla, and Siam, as countries not to be conquered.

And wrote the ancestral precept to warn future generations: If these barbarian countries do not take the initiative to find trouble, you are not allowed to conquer, even if they make trouble, we must also be generous!

The Ming Dynasty has a lot of things, and when people come to pay tribute, we have to return it ten times and a hundred times, so that it is the demeanor of a great country.

Well, it's this that makes the descendants of the Zhu family and the Ming court miserable.

You are big, you are awesome, our country Xiaoli Wei thinks that you can be the boss?

If someone bullies me, do you have to fight to help me fight?

I came on a pilgrimage with tribute, and you can't show it when you're the boss?

It's okay at the beginning, after all, there are only fifteen subject countries, and when you get to Chengzu Zhu Di, it will change its taste, although this guy is a fierce man, but there is also a stinky problem of Lao Zhu: love pomp!

At that time, the Daming Sailor was so awesome that the Daming Sailor recognized the second in the world, and no country dared to recognize the first.

But the Daming sailors led by Zheng He wandered around not to grab territory, but to Xuanwei!

And tell the overseas turtles, recognize us as the boss, not only cover you, but also give you brocade wealth.

This is also a matter of foreigners, who cares about your so-called name, and who doesn't want to do a money-making business, so overseas countries are rushing to Daming to receive relief.

In Zhu Di's reign alone, the number of small surrounding states that requested tribute to the Ming Dynasty reached 65.

At first, Daming could still bear it, after all, the national strength of Daming was quite strong in the early stage, but later these small countries with large shrimp tasted the sweetness, where is it enough once a year, twice a year, three times a year!

Moreover, small countries are poor, and the tribute is not cloth and horses, but is replaced by elephants, big-tailed monkeys and other strange things, these things are not eaten properly, used inappropriately, and waste food.

Among them, the most diligent and active tribute is Korea.

According to statistics, during Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang's 31-year reign, the DPRK paid more than 60 official tributes, an average of twice a year.

In the Zhu Di period, this fight intensified, with an average of four times a year, and during the Xuande period, an average of six times a year......

This is also too diligent, the old Zhu family had to persuade the Korean lord not to be too diligent, but the North Koreans like the Ming Dynasty too much, not only the lord worships the Ming Dynasty, but even the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are proud of the Ming Dynasty.

The old Zhu family is also not in a rut, with a conscience, among the younger brothers received by the Ming Dynasty in the past three hundred years, North Korea is one of the most obedient and iron-clad fans.

The Joseon dynasties have always served the Ming Dynasty very respectfully, and they looked down on foreign races such as Menggu and Mites Qing and other barbarians, so that later after the Mites Qing sat in the world, they launched a crazy revenge on Korea.

Not only asked the prince to go to Shengjing as a hostage, but also asked North Korea to pay a huge tribute every year.

Not to mention, the most important thing is that every year the lord of the country should personally go to the Hajj, and also perform the great gift of three prostrations and nine prostrations, which is the most stringent in the past dynasties.

Not only that, Mites Qing also fell in love with North Korean beauties (this vision, tsk), and the Korean lord had to set up a special department for this purpose - the marriage capital prison, and the whole country searched for beauties.

The Korean people remembered the Ming Dynasty, and until hundreds of years after the death of the Ming Dynasty, they still maintained many traditions of the Ming Dynasty in clothing and etiquette.

The head is also opened by you, and people worship you so much, and they dream of worshipping you, can you still refuse?

Just gritted his teeth and lasted for decades, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was almost bankrupt, and this face couldn't hold on, the old Zhu family had no choice, so they could only set the rule of death, and the North Korean State was only allowed to come once in three or two years.

As a result, the Koreans didn't stop for long to say that we really miss the Celestial Empire and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and I want to come every year.

This situation continued until Azig and Kong Youde captured the Korean capital, that is, eight years ago.

I haven't come to pay tribute for eight years, and the Korean lord Li Qi is worried that the Ming Dynasty will hate them for surrendering to the Tartars, so this time not only came to ask for guilt in person, but also almost emptied the treasury.

This has caused a problem for the rulers of the Ming Dynasty, including Chongzhen, in the imperial court, and the lords of the country have personally come to make amends, can you still be so stingy that you will not accept it?

If the first article is negative, then people have given a big gift, as the suzerain, can you be so stingy as to violate the ancestral system?

But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty is also very embarrassed now, a northern expedition of nearly half a year has exhausted the treasury, not to mention, to this day the border army, the Beijing soldiers have not made up for the pension, plus the drought in the north, the construction of canals are very expensive.

Chongzhen is a head and two big, this boss is not easy to be!

"Xiao Xizi, how much tribute did the Korean lord bring, which made the court worry like this." Liu Hongjian thought it was something, Nima, a dignified son, actually made a little brother stumped, and he was not afraid of making people laugh when he said it.

"There are really a lot, there are 30 Korean beauties, 8,000 pieces of cloth, 3,000 mountain ginseng, 1,500 pieces of deer antler, and 4,000 pieces of mink...... "Wang Erxi began to give Liu Hongjian a finger break.

Liu Hong grinned, good guy, there are really a lot, no wonder the uncle is so reluctant this time, it turns out that he is generous to others and asks us to solve the problem.

However, Liu Hong gradually didn't understand, what is there to be embarrassed about, to put it bluntly, it is not a matter of face, face is not given by others, it is earned by himself.

What is Daming's face? Is it the face of the courtiers? Fart!

It is the hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers, it is 10,000 Ming people, the soldiers can sweep away the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, and the people are rich and can eat enough, for the ruler, this is the biggest face.

As for this so-called tribute, if you have it, you can give some of it, and if you don't have it, you won't give it, can he still rely on it and not leave, believe it or not, and cut him with a big mouth?

Thinking of this, Liu Hongjian had no choice but to follow Wang Erxi to the palace.

When he arrived at the Nuan Pavilion, Chongzhen was discussing the Ming Dynasty's policy towards North Korea with the cabinet, and agreed that it was no problem for North Korea to continue to claim the title of minister, but it was stuck again when it came to the return gift.

Seeing Liu Hongjian coming, Han Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, pulled over a chair and motioned for Liu Hongjian to sit down and talk again.

"Your Majesty, let the ministers go and meet the Korean lord for a while." Liu Hong gradually got straight to the point, the north is dry like that, don't think of a way, how big is the North Korean country, and it is worth bothering the cabinet to hold a collective meeting?

PS: To explain, this story is about the North Korea that wanted to be the younger brother of the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, not the country that boasted at every turn and buttoned his hat on his head in later generations.

PS: Recently, many book friends have complained about the slow progress of the plot, and Han Han has also felt it, and the progress will be accelerated in the next few days, thank you for being with me all the way.