Chapter 294: Envoy of the Four Kingdoms
Zheng Yi walked into the hall, and then ran to Yun Xi in small steps to salute him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Yunxi naturally said: "No courtesy." ”
After that, there was a fixed procedure, and there was nothing new, until the end, the inherent procedures were all over, Zheng Yi suddenly knelt down and said: "The small people of the lower country have something to plead with His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty." His Majesty the Emperor said this is much more sincere than when he walked through the process just now.
Yun Xi saw him in this situation and knew what he was going to say. Yun Xi coughed and asked, "What's the matter with you?" ”
Zheng Yi said: "Don't hide it from Your Majesty, my Korean Zheng clan is actually Zheng Guo, which originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and is a descendant of Shaozheng's son......"
The first thing he said was that Yun Xi almost couldn't hold back. Yun Xi wanted to say: "Envoy Zheng, the Zheng State in the Spring and Autumn Period was a vassal state with the same surname as Zhou, and its descendants should be surnamed Ji." ’
However, Yun Xi held back, because he knew that the envoy of North Korea could not be Erxi, and there must be an explanation later.
Sure enough, Zheng Yi continued: "......, after Zheng Guo was destroyed by Korea, because it was already the Warring States Period at this time, only the Yan State was left among the vassal states with the same surname in the world. So in order to avoid persecution, he changed his surname to Zheng and moved to Xiaopei. ”
"Later, when the Jin State destroyed the Liao State and went south to destroy the Song Dynasty, because of the chaos in the world, my ancestors moved to Goryeo."
"Now Xiao Pei's Zheng is still in the local area, and after giving birth to Shao Zhengzi. The people of the lower country ask Your Majesty to allow me to recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors, go to Pei County to recognize my relatives, and worship my ancestors. ”
Yun Xi really didn't know that Pei County still had a descendant who was reproducing. The key is that although Zichan is quite famous, it is Confucianism that will prevail in later generations, so the descendants of sages related to Confucianism are relatively famous, while others are not very famous.
Yun Xi didn't know if what he said was true or false, and it was difficult to check. It has been more than 270 years since the Jin Kingdom went south, and even if the family tree is not lost, it is normal for someone to not see anyone alive or dead in the war, so if someone sneaks to Goryeo, you are not sure that it must be fake.
And in fact, it doesn't really matter if it's true or not. As the first family to take the initiative to go to the Ming Dynasty to ask for the recognition of their ancestors and return to their ancestors (the Min family was recognized by Yun Xi on his own initiative), Yun Xi must be allowed, and I believe that the local Zheng family will not object, at least during the New Year sacrifice, the Zheng family in North Korea can make more sacrifices to save money for their own family.
Normally, in fact, the emperor is unwilling to join the family with the same surname in various places, and the emperor is the biggest obstacle to doing so, and all families are actually willing to do this. If it is a family with the same surname in China who wants to join the clan like this, Yun Xi will also be more opposed; But for the family of North Korea and the family of the Ming Dynasty, Yun Xi is happy to see it.
However, although Yun Xi has made up his mind to let Lianzong succeed, or let the Zheng family of North Korea recognize their ancestors successfully, it can't be too easy for them to succeed. Things that are easy to get hold of are not very valuable.
So Yun Xi said: "It has been almost 2,000 years since the birth of the child, is the family tree still clear?" The meaning is actually to suspect that he is lying.
Zheng Yi actually didn't know if his family tree was true, but he immediately said: "Your Majesty, genealogy is the foundation of a clan, even if you lose the lives of most of the people in the clan, as long as one person can survive, you must preserve the genealogy, how can it not be clear!" ”
Yun Xi made it difficult for a few more words, and Zheng Yi answered them one by one. Then Yun Xi said: "In this case, I have allowed you to go to Pei County, Xuzhou, Zhili to find relatives, but whether you are born or not is not up to me, and the local Zheng family has to check the family tree." ”
And Yun Xi has already made up his mind, and later he will send his cronies to Pei County secretly to make things difficult for the local government, and then let the Zheng family make things difficult again, and finally pretend to be reluctant to accept them as children. The whole process will last at least half a year, which fully makes the North Korean Zheng family realize how difficult it is.
However, at this time, Zheng Yi didn't know that Yun Xi had such thoughts, and he didn't know that he would be anxiously waiting in Pei County for almost a year in the future, so he happily retreated.
Second. The third one who came up to see him was the envoy of Siam and Champ. Receiving them is also the first thing to go through the process, and then to get down to business.
The Siamese envoys were very concerned about the affairs of Srivijaya. Because the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty didn't feel that there was anything to keep it secret, and Yun Xi didn't feel that there was a need to keep it secret, so they already knew about the fact that the Three Buddhas sent envoys to ask for help, and they also knew that Yun Xi probably meant to 'uphold justice'. ’
Siam is also a big country in Central and South China, so he is very concerned about this matter, and cautiously asks about Yun Xi's plans.
Yun Xi also happened to want to mobilize the feudal states in the south, if the Majapahit was not obedient. We can't let these vassal states take benefits from the Ming Dynasty and pay no obligations at all.
Although in this era, Zhu Yuanzhang was not a generous person, and the value of the gift to the vassal state was probably about the same as what they paid tribute, but it was measured by the standard of the Ming Dynasty, and the value of the things given back by the Ming Dynasty was very high in Nanyang, in fact, the vassal country still took advantage.
So Yun Xi nodded a little: If 7 ignores the 'justice' of the Ming Dynasty and still insists on attacking the Three Buddhas, then the Ming Dynasty will definitely not give up, and Siam will also fulfill the 'obligations of the vassal state' at that time.
When the Siamese envoy heard Yun Xi's words, he did not dare to make any response at all, and retreated with a lot of concern.
As for the envoys of Champa that followed, they were different from those of Siam. Although the envoys of Champa also knew that Sriwijaya had sent envoys to ask for help, Champa itself was a small country, probably in the southern part of today's Vietnam, and its biggest enemies were Annam and Chenla, so they did not pay much attention to the affairs of Sriwijaya and Majapahit.
Champa is concerned that the Ming Dynasty wants to uphold justice in Nanyang. Since the Li family took power, Annan has attacked nearby countries as if he had eaten gunpowder, and it is quite like 'using foreign wars to divert domestic attention' or 'solving domestic problems abroad'.
The city of Cham is just south of Annam, and its national strength is weak, so it is often attacked by Annam. If it weren't for the decline of Zhenla now, Annan would also send troops to attack Chenla, and it's hard to say whether there is still Zhancheng now.
Zhancheng also reported this matter to Zhu Yuanzhang before, and Zhu Yuanzhang's decision was not to accept Annan's tribute. Annan was honest for a while, but seeing that Daming had no other reaction, he began to invade his neighbors again.
Zhancheng didn't seem to want Zhu Yuanzhang to be like Zhu Yuanzhang when he saw Yun Xi this time, so he reflected this matter to Yun Xi again.
Of course, Yun Xi has thoughts about Annan, but it's not time yet. Sending troops now can punish Annan, but there is no excuse to abolish the throne of Annan's king.
And at this time, for the Ming Dynasty, although the initial cost of dispatching the sailors is higher, but because there is a generation gap between the national shipbuilding technology of Nanyang and the Ming Dynasty, if you really fight, as long as you are careful, you can eliminate the opponent's sailors without much loss, just like Zheng He did in history.
However, if the army is dispatched to fight in Vietnam, the losses can not be said to be good, and referring to the experience of Zhang Fu going to Annam several times in history to fight, the losses will be very large. You made Yoon-hee pay a great price just to preside over a 'justice'? Maintaining a presence in the South Seas? Yun Xi can't do such a thing. If the United States had known that Huaxia would send troops and could accurately estimate the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia army, it would definitely not have advanced to the Yalu River when counterattacking from Incheon.
Therefore, Yun Xi could only fool the past and made some very false guarantees, but made it clear that the Ming Dynasty would continue to carry out the matter of not accepting the tribute of Annan during the Zhu Yuanzhang period. Let the messenger of Champa disappointed and left.
After that, it was time for the envoy of the Three Buddhas, Shi Jinqing, to pay tribute, which was also the thing that Yun Xi was most concerned about tonight. Yun Xi deliberately cleared his throat and waited for Shi Jinqing to come in.
Shi Jinqing walked in with anxious steps, ran to Yunxi and knelt down and saluted, saying, "The envoy of the Three Buddhas, Shi Jinqing, greets His Majesty the Ming Emperor." Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live! ”
Yun Xi heard him shout so many long live, in fact, his heart was quite refreshed, and he squinted his eyes and enjoyed it.
Then there's the stylized process, which Yun-hee is impatient with, but it also has to be executed.
Shi Jinqing was very nervous. Before meeting Yun Xi, Shi Jinqing was very anxious, but after seeing him, he was only nervous. In addition, he met the emperor of the Ming Dynasty who he had never thought of meeting before, so he was so nervous that several words were misrecited. Fortunately, Yun Xi didn't care, and the officials accompanying him considered that he was a temporary training, so it was already very good to be able to do this, and Yun Xi didn't pick up the courtesy, so he didn't say anything to correct it.
Then there is the most critical thing to ask for support from Daming. Shi Jinqing fell to his knees again and told Yun Xi about the matter again.
Yun Xi asked a few details and then sat down in his seat and pondered for a while, then asked, "Since you said that the previous king Mana was killed in the house of Majapahit, then who is the current monarch of Srivijaya?" ”
Shi Jinqing trembled for a moment, and then said slowly: "Your Majesty, the person who is now the monarch of my Three Buddhas Qi is yes, yes, it is a Han man who went out of my Ming Dynasty, named Liang Daoming." ”
Then he continued: "When the Manjapahit conquered the capital of our Srivijaya Kingdom in the thirtieth year of Hongwu, in addition to the house of my Srivijaya King, several princes of the king were also captured and then killed by the people of the Majapahit Kingdom, and there was no orthodox heir in the country. In desperation, in order to protect the people of the Three Buddhas, with the support of the people of the Three Buddhas, Liang Daoming became the monarch. ”
After that, he probably talked about Liang Daoming's identity and origin, but he did not say that he ran to Nanyang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, but said that he was, and they all ran to Nanyang at the end of the Song Dynasty.
In the end, Shi Jinqing said: "If the Ming Dynasty is willing to save the people of the Three Buddhas in the midst of fire and water, the people of my Three Buddhas are willing to attach the Ming Dynasty." ”